Adobe announces acquisition of Efficient Frontier
Adobe today announced that it has acquired digital marketing technology and services company Efficient Frontier, though the value of the deal has not been disclosed.
According to Adobe, the move will "add multichannel ad campaign forecasting, execution and optimization" to its current offerings.
Adobe is jumping the gun on HTML5
Last week, Adobe announced that it is abandoning Flash for mobiles and Flash for televisions.
It was a significant announcement that raised a lot of eyebrows, and led some to question whether the end of Flash is near. One of Apple's biggest fanboys even went so far as to declare the company's retreat from mobile Steve Jobs' last triumph.
Adobe to ditch Flash for mobile
Adobe is expected to cease development of Flash Player for browsers on mobiles devices.
A blog post from the company outlined plans to focus on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all major app stores.
Adobe acquires video ad platform Auditude
Adobe announced this morning that it has acquired video advertising company Auditude.
Privately-owned Auditude operates a video advertising management and analytics platform aimed at publishers and media companies.
78% of European marketers unhappy with social media measurement
Deciding the right way to measure their social media investments is a top priority for the majority (56%) of marketing directors, according to a new study.
The Adobe survey, carried out by Vanson Bourne, polled 500 marketing directors in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Scandinavia, looking at the usage, measurement and attitudes to social media marketing across the continent.
Adobe doubles down on its HTML5 mobile bet
For Adobe, the rise of mobile, and the iPhone and iPad in particular, has been bittersweet.
Yes, the company most recognizable to consumers for its Reader and Flash products, has plenty of new opportunities thanks to mobile, but exploiting them has required the company to look at a number of Plan Bs.
The primary reason: Apple doesn't like Flash. Adobe tried to persuade Apple that Flash isn't so bad, but that wasn't going anywhere, so the company has been increasingly betting its mobile future on other technologies, like HTML5.
Q&A: Kevin Cochrane of Adobe on customer experience management
Adobe launched its Digital Enterprise Platform last week as part of its goal of providing companies with a full suite of customer experience management (CEM) products in a multichannel age.
We have interviewed Kevin Cochrane, Adobe’s vice president of enterprise marketing, who talks about the increased focus on customer experience across a range of business sectors and explains why technology is only part of the equation.
Adobe Muse: FrontPage 2.0?
The old adage "There's nothing new under the sun" might not seem applicable to the technology industry, where so much innovation takes place. But sometimes it is very applicable.
Case in point: Muse, a new online tool Adobe has launched which is supposed to make it easy to "design and publish HTML websites without writing code."
Apple to give developers guidance, Adobe a chance
Not sure why Apple hasn't permitted your awesome iPad app in the App
Store? Worried about developing an iPhone app using anything but
Objective-C?
Rejoice. Yesterday Apple made a major, unexpected announcement: it's going to be providing official guidelines "to help developers understand how we review submitted apps" and it's also easing restrictions on the tools developers can employ when developing for the iPhone/iPad.
Is Flash a fit for mobiles? We'll soon find out
In April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained in detail why consumers aren't
going to see Flash support on the iPhone and iPad. Long story short:
Adobe Flash "is no longer necessary." Although Apple's lack of support for Flash is often cited as an
iPhone/iPad drawback, Flash certainly isn't going to win a whole lot of
popularity contests either. But the question remains: is there a place
for Flash in the mobile market?
We may soon have an answer.
