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Adobe Targets Google Docs With New Offerings
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) made a big push into the increasingly competitive online document collaboration market Monday, with two new subscription services geared for businesses. The company said that businesses that paid fees would now be able to hold online meetings for additional participants and convert more documents to PDFs via Acrobat.com, in addition to continuing to be able to access Adobe’s free online word processing service. Perhaps most notably, in its announcement, Adobe said that it would soon be launching additional online tools, including an online spreadsheet application (click on thumbnail above to see an example).
Adobe’s move is part of a larger shift from desktop to online document collaboration. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) has said that its rival Google Apps offering is already bringing in a “few hundred million” in revenue, although much of the popularity of its suite of online services is coming from e-mail, which Adobe does not offer. The real test for the market will come next year when Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launches the next version of Office, which will include a web-based version. Microsoft will immediately have an advantage online since its tools are already so ubiquitous on the desktop. However, Google—and now Adobe—will have had head starts.
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| Tue, May 05, 2009 |
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Microsoft Might Not Go Ahead With Hearing In European Antitrust Case
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has asked for the chance to defend itself early next month in front of the European Commission on charges its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows violated European antitrust law but the company might not take up the opportunity. The company tells paidContent it only requested the hearing in order to preserve its right to one and actually hasn’t decided whether to go through with it. The company filed a written response to the charges last week.
The European Commission was certainly not swayed by Microsoft’s arguments during a similar hearing six years ago—and the company’s chances this time around are not looking much better. In January, the European Commission said its preliminary view was that Microsoft had stifled competition in the browser market by packaging Internet Explorer and Windows. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Mozilla have since said that they support the European Commission’s preliminary findings. And earlier this month, a host of other tech companies, including IBM, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), represented by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, also joined as third parties in the case.
At stake for Microsoft: “a significant fine based on worldwide sales of Windows operating systems,” according to the company’s most recent quarterly filing. Microsoft has also said that the European Commission wants the company and computer makers to let users choose a specific browser when they buy a new PC even though many Europeans are already forgoing Internet Explorer. The Internet Institute puts Internet Explorer’s market share at 58.1 percent in Europe in January, below its market share in the United States.
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| Mon, May 04, 2009 |
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Microsoft Might Not Go Ahead With Hearing In European Antitrust Case
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has asked for the chance to defend itself early next month in front of the European Commission on charges its bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows violated European antitrust law but the company might not take up the opportunity. The company tells paidContent it only requested the hearing in order to preserve its right to one and actually hasn’t decided whether to go through with it. The company filed a written response to the charges last week.
The European Commission was certainly not swayed by Microsoft’s arguments during a similar hearing six years ago—and the company’s chances this time around are not looking much better. In January, the European Commission said its preliminary view was that Microsoft had stifled competition in the browser market by packaging Internet Explorer and Windows. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and Mozilla have since said that they support the European Commission’s preliminary findings. And earlier this month, a host of other tech companies, including IBM, Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), and RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK), represented by the European Committee for Interoperable Systems, also joined as third parties in the case.
At stake for Microsoft: “a significant fine based on worldwide sales of Windows operating systems,” according to the company’s most recent quarterly filing. Microsoft has also said that the European Commission wants the company and computer makers to let users choose a specific browser when they buy a new PC even though many Europeans are already forgoing Internet Explorer. The Internet Institute puts Internet Explorer’s market share at 58.1 percent in Europe in January, below its market share in the United States.
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| Mon, Apr 27, 2009 |
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Industry Moves: Yahoo Taps Ex-Adobe Exec As New SVP For Mail, Flickr
The management shuffling at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues: Yahoo has hired *Adobe* Systems veteran Bryan Lamkin (pictured, right) as senior vice president of the company’s applications products division, which includes communications offerings, such as Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, as well as communities properties, such as Flickr and Yahoo Answers. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher first reported the hiring. As paidContent.org reported Friday, Yahoo is also restructuring its North American sales group.
Scott Dietzen, who had served as interim head of the group for the last several months, will become VP of strategy, Swisher reported. Yahoo PR did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. A Yahoo spokesman confirmed Lamkin’s hiring in an e-mail to paidContent.org.
Lamkin’s hiring is the latest management change by new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. Just this week-end, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had laid off Communications Chief Brad Williams.
Lamkin has spent the last year-and-a-half working as an executive in residence, first at New Enterprise Associates and then at Sutter Hill Ventures, according to his LinkedIn profile. Previously, he spent 14 years at Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), most recently as senior vice president of the company’s Creative Solutions unit, leading product strategy, marketing and product development for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator. He retired from that post in early 2006.
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Industry Moves: Yahoo Taps Ex-Adobe Exec As New SVP For Mail, Flickr
The management shuffling at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) continues: Yahoo has hired *Adobe* Systems veteran Bryan Lamkin as senior vice president of the company’s applications products division, which includes communications offerings, such as Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger, as well as communities properties, such as Flickr and Yahoo Answers. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher first reported the hiring. As paidContent.org reported Friday, Yahoo is also restructuring its North American sales group.
Scott Dietzen, who had served as interim head of the group for the last several months, will become VP of strategy, Swisher reported. Yahoo PR did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
Lamkin’s hiring is the latest management change by new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz. Just this week-end, the Wall Street Journal reported that the company had laid off Communications Chief Brad Williams.
Lamkin has spent the last year-and-a-half working as an executive in residence, first at New Enterprise Associates and then at Sutter Hill Ventures, according to his LinkedIn profile. Previously, he spent 14 years at Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE), most recently as senior vice president of the company’s Creative Solutions unit, leading product strategy, marketing and product development for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Illustrator. He retired from that post in early 2006.
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