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Microsoft joint venture Avanade expands consulting practice to Adobe, signaling cozier relationship between tech giants

by Nat Levy on July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 at 10:47 am

The relationship between Adobe and Microsoft is taking a step forward thanks to a new partnership with Avanade — a Seattle-based joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft — to bring… Read More

Microsoft and Adobe team up to take on Salesforce, leveraging LinkedIn for marketing and sales tools

by Nat Levy on March 26, 2019March 26, 2019 at 10:21 am

Microsoft and Adobe are teaming up again, announcing new tools today to give marketers and salespeople new insights into purchasing teams inside big companies. The expanded partnership is notable as… Read More

Dropbox acquires HelloSign for $230M, putting it in e-signature competition with DocuSign and Adobe

by Nat Levy on January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 at 8:29 am

Dropbox is jumping into the e-signature market with a major acquisition. Dropbox said Monday it is acquiring HelloSign, a document signing and workflow company for $230 million. Dropbox is mostly… Read More

Automation company Nintex partners with Adobe to challenge DocuSign in electronic signatures

by Tony Lystra on January 24, 2019February 11, 2019 at 7:38 am

Nintex, the Bellevue, Wash.-based workflow automation company, announced this morning that it is getting into the electronic signature business. In a direct challenge to electronic signature company DocuSign, which was… Read More

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The top selling items at Amazon and other retailers this holiday season

by Starla Sampaco on November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 at 9:19 pm

From smart speakers to gaming consoles, U.S. consumers spent billions of dollars between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. According to Adobe Analytics, online holiday shopping is expected to top $124 billion… Read More

Amazon sets new holiday shopping records over a long Thanksgiving weekend and Cyber Monday

by Frank Catalano on November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 at 10:28 am

It’s beginning to look a lot like a record Amazon Christmas, if the start of the holiday shopping season is any indication. On Tuesday, Amazon reported that the five days… Read More

Black Friday online sales rise 24% to $6.2B in U.S., including record $2B purchased on smartphones

by Todd Bishop on November 24, 2018November 24, 2018 at 10:13 am

Online sales rose 23.6 percent to $6.22 billion on Black Friday in the U.S., according to new industry stats released this morning by Adobe Analytics. The total was second only… Read More

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TLDR: New study says Uber drivers are earning less

by Starla Sampaco on September 24, 2018September 24, 2018 at 6:30 pm

Today’s featured stories Uber drivers are earning less, Airbnb hosts are making more, and other insights from a new study on the gig economy Microsoft teams up with Adobe and… Read More

Microsoft teams up with Adobe and SAP on Open Data Initiative to link data across their products

by Tom Krazit on September 24, 2018September 24, 2018 at 12:37 pm

Modern enterprise technology generates a ton of valuable data, but putting that data together can be quite tricky. Microsoft introduced a new industry partnership with Adobe and SAP Monday at… Read More

Adobe acquires Marketo for $4.75 billion to add enterprise marketing customers to its mix

by Tom Krazit on September 20, 2018September 20, 2018 at 1:52 pm

Adobe has been selling software to consumer marketing teams for decades, and it will start butting heads with enterprise marketing software vendors following the close of its $4.75 billion acquisition… Read More

Geek of the Week: Girls Who Code find the right role model in Adobe software engineer Rebecca Gold

by Kurt Schlosser on August 31, 2018August 31, 2018 at 10:51 am

Rebecca Gold took her first computer science class when she was a senior in high school to avoid taking calculus. “I was pretty good, and I liked it, so I figured… Read More

How Paul Brainerd’s extraordinary career went from revolutionizing publishing to empowering enviros

by Lisa Stiffler on July 29, 2018July 30, 2018 at 10:38 am

The sale in 1994 of Seattle’s Aldus to Adobe for $525 million didn’t end Paul Brainerd’s entrepreneurial run. It just pointed it in a new direction. A personal windfall of… Read More

Microsoft and Adobe expand partnership with deeper PDF integration across Office 365 versions

by Nat Levy on June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 at 8:20 pm

Microsoft and Adobe are cozying up even closer, with a series of new announcements including deeper integration of Adobe PDF capabilities into Office 365 apps. The Redmond company has come… Read More

Microsoft and Adobe’s friendship deepens with partnership on e-signatures

by Tom Krazit on September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 at 11:25 am

Almost one year after Microsoft and Adobe announced the start of a sweeping partnership, the two companies are teaming up again, this time to promote each other’s e-signature and cloud… Read More

Adobe unveils new Microsoft HoloLens and Amazon Alexa integrations

by Nat Levy on March 22, 2017March 22, 2017 at 10:04 am

Adobe is in the middle of its big Summit conference, where it is introducing a variety of new technologies, including tie-ins with the Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality headset and Amazon’s… Read More

US government websites found to be slow, insecure, not mobile friendly and failing in accessibility

by Geof Wheelwright on March 17, 2017March 17, 2017 at 7:47 am

Federal agencies and officials have a lot on their plates these days, but a report from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank points to another issue that should be getting their attention: upgrading… Read More

Working Geek: When Adobe Marketing Manager Dana McAlexander isn’t in the air, you’ll find her on horseback

by Monica Nickelsburg on March 3, 2017March 3, 2017 at 1:28 pm

Most new hires spend their first day learning software tools and hanging pictures. On Dana McAlexander’s first day with Adobe, she flew to New York City. She’s constantly jet-setting because… Read More

Adobe escalates DocuSign challenge with new cloud-based digital signatures built on open standards

by Nat Levy on February 22, 2017February 22, 2017 at 12:07 pm

Adobe is introducing new ways to scan, read and digitally sign documents on smartphones and tablets with the latest updates to its Adobe Sign and Sensei programs. Adobe said Wednesday it will be… Read More

Cyber Monday online retail sales top $3.4B, making it the biggest online shopping day in history

by Nat Levy on November 29, 2016November 29, 2016 at 8:38 am

Cyber Monday this year was the biggest online shopping day in history. According to data compiled by Adobe, online shoppers spent $3.45 billion online yesterday. That’s a 12.1 percent increase over… Read More

U.S. online retail sales reach record $3B on Black Friday, $1B via mobile, recovering from post-election slump

by Todd Bishop on November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 at 5:45 pm

Online retail sales in the U.S. on Black Friday will surpass $3 billion for the first time, including a record $1.1 billion from smartphones and tablets, according to data released this evening… Read More

How Microsoft’s new Adobe partnership brings its LinkedIn acquisition into clearer focus

by Kevin Lisota on September 27, 2016September 29, 2016 at 7:39 am

ATLANTA, GA. — Microsoft’s ambitious acquisition of LinkedIn raised some eyebrows with its $26B price tag. Monday’s announcement of a strategic partnership with Adobe’s Marketing Cloud technologies may give clues to Microsoft’s… Read More

Adobe partners with Microsoft to use Azure as ‘preferred solution’ for cloud services

by Taylor Soper on September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 at 6:55 am

ATLANTA, GA. — Technology giants Adobe and Microsoft announced a strategic cloud partnership at Microsoft Ignite on Monday, with each company throwing its weight behind the other in some of the most… Read More

Microsoft, Amazon, other tech giants join fight over transgender initiative

by Nat Levy on June 20, 2016June 20, 2016 at 10:48 am

Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Adobe and Facebook are among a group of more than 150 large companies opposing a statewide initiative that seeks to limit transgender people’s access to locker rooms and bathrooms.… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Solstice Social Good, Future of Robotics, Rails for Women Workshop

by Cara Kuhlman on June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 at 3:36 pm

Community organizers will kick off a new initiative, Solstice Social Good, in conjunction with Seattle’s annual Fremont Solstice festival, on Friday, June 17. The kick-off event provides a forum to… Read More

Adobe partners with Box, Microsoft for enterprise cloud integration

by James Risley on April 25, 2016April 25, 2016 at 7:06 pm

Box is currently storing more than 2 billion PDFs in the cloud, but before today, Adobe users needed to jump through hoops to get at those files. Now, Adobe and… Read More

Adobe ditches ‘Flash’ name as it tries to catch up with a web built on open standards

by James Risley on December 1, 2015December 1, 2015 at 3:28 pm

Adobe is getting rid of Flash, at least in name. The company announced today it’s changing the name of its Flash Professional CC software to Animate CC, reflecting better tools for… Read More

U.S. posts $4.5 billion in online sales from Thanksgiving and Black Friday, a third on mobile

by Molly Brown on November 30, 2015November 30, 2015 at 9:34 am

Shopping until you drop may very well become a thing of the past. Two of the year’s biggest shopping days, Thanksgiving and Black Friday, saw big sales coming from online,… Read More

Survey shows that average U.S. worker spends 6.3 hours checking email every day

by Molly Brown on August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 at 10:09 am

Ouch. If you’re still hurting over that lost 63 hours a year you spend in Seattle traffic, this is just the icing on that life-suck cake: A new poll shows… Read More

E-signatures to hit more than 700M in 2017 as consolidation gobbles up the competition

by Tricia Duryee on May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 at 3:14 pm

The number of transactions using electronic signatures is growing, even though the number of companies offering the service is shrinking. That’s the key takeaway from a new report out that is forecasting… Read More

Adobe doubles down on prosumer photo management plans with Lightroom update

by Blair Hanley Frank on April 21, 2015April 21, 2015 at 2:16 am

Adobe unveiled a spring update to its photography products today focused on boosting the company’s already strong capabilities in the photography market. It’s particularly focused on Lightroom, a photo management… Read More

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