ComScore Sells Digital Analytix Business To Adobe En Route To Buying Rentrak For $732M

Big Data concept picture with ones and zeros going off into infinity. While online traffic measurement firm comScore moves ahead on its $732 million deal to acquire Rentrak, it’s selling another part of its business as it continues to streamline: today comScore announced that Adobe would buy comScore’s Digital Analytix big data business intelligence service, in a deal Adobe says will close in December. The moves underscore how comScore is… Read More

Online Holiday Sales To Hit Record $83 Billion, Mobile To Drive Majority Of Visits For First Time

Google Shopping Some big-name brick-and-mortar retailers have made the decision to stay closed on Thanksgiving Day, but that decision – nor all those Facebook pledges to not shop on the holiday – will make much of an impact on this year’s holiday season sales. It could be that consumers will just be shopping online, not in-store, as it turns out. According to recent forecasts, e-commerce… Read More

Study: 42% Of Americans Check Their Email In The Loo

15741576451_299bb6ef8d_o Need a quiet spot to check your email? Looks like for many people, that’s the bathroom. According to a new study from Adobe, 42 percent of Americans use their time there to check their email.
This result is part of a wider study Adobe did to look at trends in email usage — something the company obviously cares about given the email marketing services it offers. Read More

Farewell To Flash: What It Means For Digital Video Publishers

flash-crosses It’s been more than five years since Steve Jobs wrote his infamous “Thoughts on Flash” letter citing the high level of energy consumption, lack of performance on mobile and poor security as the reasons his company’s products would not support Adobe Flash technology. Finally, it appears we’re getting closer to the curtain closing on Flash. Read More

Firefox Temporarily Blocks Adobe Flash Because Of Security Concerns

2015-07-14_0945_001 The fallout of the Hacking Team leak is hitting Adobe hard. The leak revealed two unpatched vulnerabilities in the company’s ubiquitous (and ubiquitously disliked) Flash Player. Because it took Adobe a while to patch these, Mozilla decided to block all versions of Flash for Firefox users. Adobe today finally released a patched version of Flash, but Firefox users may have to manually… Read More

Experts Find A Third Hacking Team Flash Exploit, Call For An End To The Madness

xoom-flash (1) TrendMicro has posted yet another 0day AKA urgent Flash hole that could put your data at risk. The Hacking Team, a group of professional hackers who supplied governments with hacking tools and whose entire information database was recently leaked, used this exploit to attack computers without the user’s knowledge. The new vulnerability, CVE-2015-5123, follows two other 0day exploits.… Read More

Adobe Is Patching A Hole The Hacking Team Used To Exploit Flash

HT-exploit-580x430 Many companies have best practices and the Hacking Team, the “computer security experts” who sold hacking tools to various federal and state agencies around the world, are no exception. Their database of information includes a number of interesting hacking tips, including mention of a 0-day, unpatched hole in Adobe Flash that the company is currently closing. Security researcher… Read More

Adobe Updates Creative Cloud With Dehaze Tool For Photoshop and Lightroom, Photoshop Artboards, Adobe Stock Integration And More

Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 Adobe’s Creative Cloud may be a subscription service with updates that roll out at regular intervals, but once a year, the company also announces a major update to all of the Creative Cloud apps. This year’s milestone update brings a number of new features to virtually all of the Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, Premiere Pro and others, but it… Read More

Adobe Launches Stock Photo Service With Deep Creative Cloud Integration

2015-06-15_1001 Adobe today unveiled Adobe Stock, a stock imagery service with deep integration into Creative Cloud tools like Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro. This marks the company’s first foray into the stock content business, and the new product is the result of Adobe’s acquisition of the Fotolia stock content marketplace, which closed fewer than six months ago. Read More

Adobe Brings Photoshop Mix, Brush CC, Shape CC And Color CC To Android

cc_0 Adobe launched four new Android apps today (slightly ahead of schedule). While the company has long offered iOS tools for popular apps like Photoshop, Lightroom and others, it has generally not made these services available for Android. Starting today, however, Creative Cloud subscribers can also use Photoshop Mix, Brush CC, Shape CC and Color CC on Google’s platform.
According… Read More