Adobe Systems Inc
Today we release our Digital & Media Asset Management Report 2009. In this new edition, we've greatly expanded our coverage of Minnesota, USA-based MediaBeacon, a pioneer in XMP, and a small but savvy company that's frequently competing with the larger corporate muscle of Open Text's Artesia and Interwoven's MediaBin.
I recently celebrated a personal milestone of sorts: I acquired my 500th friend on Facebook.
Well, "celebrated" is the wrong word. These days, as this story in today's Wall Street Journal shows, the enviable thing is to have a trim Facebook network comprising only people one actually knows and likes; or, failing that, to have a strictly-regimented network with different tiers of access accurately reflecting degrees of real-world intimacy.
—Take-Two (NSDQ: TTWO) retains Rockstar talent : Long live GTA. Take-Two has signed new compensation deals with key creatives from Rockstar Games, with terms that will keep the minds behind the Grand Theft Auto franchise with the publisher until at least 2012. The previous contracts were set to expire in 2009.
- Adobe
- Adobe Systems Inc
- Caribbean
- Dan Houser
- EA/Take-Two
- Gore Verbinski
- hybrid virtual world/game site
- Insider Trading
- Israel
- Lehman Brothers
- Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
- Leslie Benzies
- Mark Logic Digital
- Microsoft
- Microsoft Corporation
- Sam Houser
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shidonni
- software makes
- Take-Two
- Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
- USD
- Verbinski's Films
Around the Net In Online Marketing: Adobe: Takeover Target?
Ironically, laying people off (as a way to improve operating efficiency) is not cheap. Just ask Adobe Systems.
A heavy Saturday coming up for CBSSports.com, including streaming the Southeastern Conference (SEC) championship between unbeaten Alabama and would-be giant-killer Florida. (Alabama is ranked #1 across the polls; Florida is ranked #2 by AP.) The game (4 p.m., ET) is the culmination of the network's first season of a new deal with the SEC that allows full live streaming online and on CBS (NYSE: CBS) Sports Mobile for those with access to MediaFlo.
Around the Net In Online Marketing: Adobe Systems To Lay Off 600
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is cutting about 600 jobs, or 8 percent of its workforce, citing the economy slowdown as a reason. Sales for its Creative Suite 4 package, which includes popular Photoshop, has been much slower than expected, the company said.
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the largest handset maker in the world, but the big question is: will wireless incumbents like Nokia, or newcomers like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG), b
For most of the sports-viewing world, the big news in the deal announced today between ESPN (NYSE: DIS) and the Bowl Championship Series is the price tag—an estimated $500 million—and the apparently inexorable move of major sports from free over-the-air broadcast to subscription-supported cable.
