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PublicNASDAQ:ADBE
Date8/86
Raised
Post IPO Valuation

General Information

Websiteadobe.com
Blogblogs.adobe.com
Twitter@Adobe
CategorySoftware
Phone408-536-6000
Employees7,173
Founded12/82

Offices

People

Co-founder, Co-Chairman of the Board
Co-founder, Co-Chairman of the Board
CTO
VP, Communications
SVP, Media & Advertising Solutions
Director of Product Marketing
Engineering Manager
Sr. Product Manager
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Former People

Vice President Product
President & CEO
VP of Marketing & Business Development
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Acquisitions

Total$5.96B
Behance, 12/12
Efficient Frontier, 11/11 $400M
Auditude, 11/11 $120M
Typekit, 10/11
Nitobi Software, 10/11
IRIDAS, 9/11
EchoSign, 7/11
Demdex, 1/11
Day Software, 7/10 $240M
Omniture, 10/09 $1.8B
GoodBarry, 8/09
YaWah, 9/08
Virtual Ubiquity, 9/07
Adobe Scene7 , 5/07
Serious Magic, 10/06
InterAKT, 9/06
Pixmantec, 6/06
Trade and Technologies France, 4/06
Amicima, 2006
Navisware, 12/05
Macromedia, 12/05 $3.4B
OKYZ , 12/04
Accelio Corporation, 4/02
Fotiva, 12/01
GoLive Systems, 1/99
DigiDox, 9/97
HyWay Ferranti, 9/97
Sandcastle, 3/97
Ares Software, 5/96
Frame Technology, 10/95
Photoshop, 1995
Aldus Corp, 8/94
OCR Systems, 6/92
BluePoint Technologies, 6/90
Emerald City Software, 3/90

Investments

Demandbase 3/13
Demandbase 5/11
Demandbase 8/08
Veoh 6/08
56.com 12/07
scanR 3/07

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Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is a diversified software company. The Company offers a line of business and mobile software and services used by professionals, designers, knowledge workers, high-end consumers, original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partners, developers and enterprises for creating, managing, delivering and engaging with compelling content and experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media. Adobe distributes its products through a network of distributors and dealers, value-added resellers (VARs), systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and OEMs, direct to end users and through its own Website at www.adobe.com. The Company also licenses its technology to hardware manufacturers, software developers and service providers, and it offers integrated software solutions to businesses of all sizes. Adobe has operations in the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia.

Adobe added Flash to its technology portfolio after acquisition of Macromedia in 2005.

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Products

Adobe AIR
Adobe Flash
Buzzword
photoshop.com

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Quantcast

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Adobe

Sources

  1. Adobe acquires Behance to bring more community into Creative Cloud (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. Adobe Acquires Efficient Frontier To Boost Its Digital Marketing Solutions (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Adobe acquires video ad platform Auditude for $120M (updated) (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  4. Adobe acquires cloud font site Typekit as part of larger creative cloud service offering (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  5. Adobe Acquires Developer Of HTML5 Mobile App Framework PhoneGap Nitobi (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. ADOBE ACQUIRES IRIDAS TECHNOLOGY (freshnews.com) [edit]
  7. Adobe Acquires Electronic Signature Startup EchoSign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  8. Adobe beefs up its ad targeting by acquiring Demdex (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  9. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  10. Adobe Buys Omniture For $1.8 Billion (paidcontent.org) [edit]
  11. Adobe Buys Business Catalyst / GoodBarry (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  12. Adobe Systems acquires YaWah (yawah.com) [edit]
  13. Adobe buys web word processor Buzzword (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  14. Alarm:Clock (thealarmclock.com) [edit]
  15. Adobe acquires Serious Magic to push Flash video (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  16. Adobe Systems Inc acquires InterAKT (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  17. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Pixmantec ApS (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  18. Adobe Acquires Trade and Technologies France (designorati.com) [edit]
  19. Citation Needed [add]
  20. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Navisware (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  21. Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) [edit]
  22. Adobe Systems Inc acquires OKYZ SA (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  23. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Accelio Corp from Adobe Systems Canada Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  24. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Fotiva Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  25. Adobe Systems Inc acquires GoLive Systems Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  26. Adobe Systems Inc acquires DigiDox Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  27. Adobe Systems Inc acquires HyWay Ferranti (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  28. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Sandcastle Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  29. ADOBE SYSTEMS ACQUIRES ARES SOFTWARE (thefreelibrary.com) [edit]
  30. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Frame Technology Corp (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  31. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Photoshop (news.cnet.com) [edit]
  32. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Aldus Corp (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  33. Adobe Systems Inc acquires OCR Systems Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  34. Adobe Systems Inc acquires BluePoint Technologies Inc (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  35. Adobe Systems Inc acquires Emerald City Software (alacrastore.com) [edit]
  36. Demandbase Raises $15M More From Scale, Adobe And Others For B2B Marketing Services (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  37. Demandbase Raises $10 Million For B2B Marketing Software (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  38. Demandbase Raises $8 Million For Online Lead Generation Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  39. Veoh Raises Another $30 Million From Intel Capital, Adobe, and Gordon Crawford (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  40. Citation Needed [add]
  41. ScanR, a cross-device scanner company, raises $8M more (deals.venturebeat.com) [edit]
  42. Citation Needed [add]
    Adobe Posts Record Revenue, Up 42 Percent To $990 Million (techcrunch.com) [edit]
    Adobe Systems Inc acquires LaserTools-Language Tech from LaserTools Corp (alacrastore.com) [edit]
    Adobe Systems Inc acquires Yellow Dragon Software-Tech from Yellow Dragon Software Corp (alacrastore.com) [edit]
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