Amit Chowdhry | January 4, 2012 | 366 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Andy Miller, Apple Inc., Todd Teresi

Apple has hired Adobe executive Todd Teresi to run Apple’s mobile advertising unit iAd. Apple launched iAd in 2010 after acquiring Quattro Wireless. Teresi is replacing Andy Miller and is reporting directly to Eddy Cue. Miller is the founder of Quattro and developed the core of iAd. Before Adobe, Teresi previously worked at Quantcast and Yahoo!
Amit Chowdhry | November 30, 2011 | 253 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Cambrian Ventures, Efficient Frontier, Mitsui Ventures, Omniture Inc., Redpoint Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired digital marketing company Efficient Frontier. The acquisition will help Adobe add multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution, and optimization capabilities to their Digital Marketing solutions.

Amit Chowdhry | November 12, 2011 | 631 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Apple Inc., Mike Chambers, Steve Jobs

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) principal product manager for developer relations Mike Chambers wrote a blog post detailing one of the major reasons why the company has decided to end initiatives for mobile development of the Flash Player. Chambers admitted that Apple’s decision not to support the Flash Player on iOS was a major reason why the company ended mobile initiatives.

Amit Chowdhry | November 10, 2011 | 499 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe AIR, Adobe Flash, Adobe Systems Inc

Adobe Systems Incorporation (NASDAQ:ADBE) announced yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Flash on mobile devices. The company has also revealed yesterday that they would no longer be supporting Adobe Flash on consumer electronics including web-connected TVs. Adobe plans to focus their energies on Adobe AIR and contribute to HTML5.

Amit Chowdhry | November 9, 2011 | 394 views | 1 Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Danny Winokur

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has announced that they will be halting their efforts to develop and deploy Adobe Flash on mobile devices. Adobe has been delivering the Flash Player for mobile browsers to many different devices. However HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, exclusively on some devices like the iPhone and iPad. Adobe has officially announced that they will be working with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and RIM to drive HTML5 innovation.

Amit Chowdhry | October 17, 2011 | 275 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Apple App Store

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has launched an Adobe Reader application for iOS. The application works on the iPhone and the iPad. Adobe Reader for iOS allows people to view, access, share, and print PDFs. The PDFs can also be sent to AirPrint-supported printers. [iTunes link]
Amit Chowdhry | October 11, 2011 | 2,390 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) is creating a feature for Photoshop that helps you anti-blur photos. Adobe demoed the feature at the company MAX 2011 event. In the demo, Adobe showed how the anti-blurring feature works. The anti-blur feature uses advanced algorithms to calculate movements of the camera at the time the image was taken and allows the user to “fix” the image by un-blurring it. Check out the video below:

Amit Chowdhry | October 3, 2011 | 538 views | Add a Comment
Categorized under Adobe Systems Inc, Typekit

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired Typekit. Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch made the announcement at the annual MAX conference as part of the company’s Creative Cloud strategy presentation. Typekit serves three billion fonts per month on over one million different websites including typefaces used by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker. Typekit is making fonts available to broad audiences with platform integration in companies like WordPress.com, About.me, Posterous, and Behance. [Typekit Blog]