Following Behance buy, Adobe acquires mobile app design firm Thumb Labs
Adobe has acquired another design tool, following its Behance buy — the Brookyln based mobile app design shop Thumb Labs. Read more »
Survey: How apps can solve photo management
A recent survey found that 76 percent of respondents store their digital photos on multiple devices using multiple services.That means ample opportunity exists for companies offering solutions that tackle this “dispersed photo problem.” This report analyzes the aforementioned survey’s results, and also measures 18 different vendors against what respondents value most when it comes to photo-organizing solutions. Read more »
The week in cloud: Google picks Debian; AWS console for Windows; Adobe faces wrath
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Google picked Debian as the default OS for the Google Compute Engine; AWS builds console to enable Windows IT admins to manage on-prem and AWS workloads, Adobe feels artists’ ire. Read more »
Why Adobe’s big cloud bet really isn’t a huge gamble at all
Falling average selling prices, and millions of non-upgrading users made Adobe’s transition from Creative Suite to Creative Cloud inevitable. Read more »
Adobe bets that Creative Cloud, not the desktop, is the future
RIP Adobe Creative Suite. In a true sign of the times Adobe nixes continued development on its landmark desktop apps to refocus on SaaS delivery. Read more »
How to build your own Adobe Creative Suite with cheaper Mac app alternatives
Here are the best alternatives I’ve found that offer similar functionality to what is available in each of Adobe’s products. Read more »
Demandbase nets $15M to build out its B2B marketing database and sell it better
The B2B marketing company will use a new round led by Scale Venture Partners to build out both its database and the sales and marketing troops to push it. Read more »
Adobe’s CTO leaving the company and heading to Apple
The move to Apple is tinged with a bit of irony considering the bad blood between the two companies. Read more »
Photoshop Touch for iPhone: Impressive features on a small screen
The newest version of Photoshop Touch for iOS runs well on the iPhone 5. But powerful photo-editing tools on small-screen devices still seem an odd pairing. Read more »
Social fourth-quarter 2012 analysis
Interest may be weakening in consumer social media businesses. But social technologies are working their way deeper into enterprise computing, and social media is playing a bigger role across advertising and marketing sectors. Read more »
Adobe buys Behance, sees the value in designer community
Adobe has bought up designer portfolio site Behance. The move is the latest example of how tech companies are rapidly embracing the designer community and good design. Read more »
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An overview of the photo and video app market
The photo and video app market is a sizable one undergoing rapid changes right now. With low barriers to entry, this is a market that also consists of a large number of developers and is certainly not limited to a handful of well-financed startups. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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OTT technologies and strategies for broadcasters
TV broadcasters and programmers must embrace a new set of video-delivery techniques to reach consumers today. Online delivery to so many types of consumer devices means that video programmers must produce multiple internet-streaming formats that use different types of security and different ways of inserting ads. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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The state of cross-platform media measurement
Brand advertising’s focus on cross-platform media measurement has grown dramatically in the past five years. Within the next 36 months cross-platform digital video advertising will standardize, driven by the shift in media dollars to online viewing and the adoption of the Making Measurement Make Sense (3MS) initiative. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Listening platforms: finding the value in social media data
Listening platforms — or social media monitoring, analysis, and engagement tools — are bringing massive amounts of new information to businesses’ marketing departments. These tools are also leading the way in the growth of social media information and access throughout organizations so that customers’ wants and needs can be better understood and, presumably, satisfied. This report analyzes how the adoption of listening platforms is transforming marketing departments, their relationships with central IT, and the core systems that run the enterprise. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Acquia buys Mollom to build bigger, better content moderation
Together Acquia and Mollom say they can build a content moderation platform that will let organizations manage user-generated content for many sites from a single dashboard. Acquia’s Bryan House said Mollom will also continue to support third-party (non-Acquia) content management systems. Read more »
Developers: Here’s your updated backend ecosystems roadmap
As enterprise software vendors try to get more mobile savvy — via acquisition or organically — mobile service companies are looking for new ports in a storm. Kinvey, which tracks these trends, has updated its backend-as-a-service ecosystem map to help developers sort things out. Read more »
Streaming the Olympics: How the BBC and Adobe do it
U.K. sports fans will get 24 live streams of the action once the Olympic Games unfold in London this weekend. The BBC is relying on Adobe to deliver these streams, and the company is using it as a big test case for its new Project Primetime. Read more »
Here’s how to get filesharing on Facebook with Pipe
After some serious beta testing, Facebook file transfer app Pipe is now ready for action. It allows users to send each other files to each other through the social network — and we have 5,000 invitations to get in early. Read more »
The new digital newsstand: Enabling “pass-along” — and saying no sometimes
The biggest challenge for a media company like Meredith is shifting focus to consumer engagement across platforms, Meredith’s Liz Schimel said at paidContent 2012. Part of that means making the brands available on the right platforms, but not all platforms. Read more at paidContent »
DocTrackr lets you control your documents — wherever they are
DocTrackr’s new “remote document management as a service” will let users control access to their Word, Excel, or PDF files, monitor their use, and even destroy them after they’ve been emailed to others, says Clement Cazalot, company CEO. Read more »
Crocodoc rethinks PDFs for the mobile web
Four guys from MIT have come up with a super easy way to see PDF and other document files on the mobile browsers without needing any kind of plugins and special add-ons. Their company, Crocodoc has already snagged customers like Dropbox, SAP and LinkedIn. Read more »
Box rounds up a bunch of apps for cloud storage push
The storage wars continue with Box calling in the cavalry. The business-oriented cloud storage vendor aggregated 30-plus applications to be accessed from mobile devices and used with Box’s flagship service. But Box is not alone — there are dozens of rivals in the fight. Read more »
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New challenges for the IT organization
Cloud computing, mobile computing and the consumerization of IT combine to create another force that overwhelms IT departments: complexity, including complexity of devices and applications, physical and virtual computing environments, and related challenges for IT staff. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Looks like Bloom Energy is behind Apple’s massive fuel cell farm
I’ve heard from a couple sources that fuel cell maker Bloom Energy is the supplier behind Apple’s planned massive 5 MW fuel cell farm to be built at its data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Read more »
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NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout
The fourth quarter may have lacked a dominating big-event product announcement like Q3’s Facebook platform extension or Q2’s unveiling of Google+, but the NewNet world continued to buzz along. In the battle for mind share, everyone wanted to be a platform. Meanwhile, consumer and social technologies continued to gain momentum, and new vehicles for content and service discovery presented both challenges and opportunities for NewNet companies. And it is hard to ignore the overcrowded but growing world of daily deals. This quarterly report analyzes these trends and others, and it also provides a near-term outlook of trends, technologies and companies to watch in 2012. Companies mentioned in the report include Amazon, Facebook and Socialcast. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Report: Apple Snags Adobe, Yahoo Vet Teresi To Lead iAd Group
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has reportedly hired a new leader for its iAd effort, in hopes of getting its home-grown solution for in-app advertising… Read more at paidContent »
What's Coming In 2012: Digital Advertising, Up Close And Personal
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more at paidContent »
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Forecast: the evolution of the e-book market
The newfound popularity of the e-book is now raising questions over what exactly it will look like in the future, since digital formats allow authors and artists to offer much more than what was possible with the printed page. Social and interactive experiences within the e-book can include not only text but also audio, video or even a combination of all three, and these factors have a direct effect on the evolution of the overall e-book market. In this analysis, we identify six competitive areas of that market that will see large-scale shifts in the near future. Such rapid change will mean that in just four to five years, what a book is and what publishing is will — to many — mean something radically different than it does today. Companies mentioned in this report include Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and Open Road. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Adobe's Acquisition Binge Continues With Purchase Of Efficient Frontier
Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) began the month by buying online video ad manager Auditude and now it’s bring November to a close with the acquisition of… Read more at paidContent »
Update: No Flash Yet On Android Ice Cream Sandwich, But Does It Matter?
Today we either saw the first effects of Adobe’s decision to stop developing Flash for mobile, or another example of why it has not gotten v… Read more at paidContent »
Revision3 bets on HTML5, drops Flash player development
Revision3 rolled out a new, HTML5-based video player to standardize its user experience across web browsers and on mobile and connected devices. At the same time, it made a strategic decision to phase out support of Flash and throw more development resources behind HTML5 instead. Read more »
Will New SEC Guidelines Play Into The Hands Of Cyber Attackers?
The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to make sure investors aren’t kept in the dark when companies lose valuable intellectual proper… Read more at paidContent »
MobileTechRoundup podcast episode 252
Join Matt and Kevin for the weekly mobile tech podcast. On tap: An interview with Stephen Elop and hands-on impressions of Nokia’s Lumia 800 start the show, the new Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, upcoming AT&T smartphones and new Android tabets; now with quad-core processors! Read more »
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Connected world: the consumer technology revolution
Connectivity changes everything. That’s the credo driving just about every corner of our day-to-day lives. As human beings, we are now connected to one another through not just our social networks but also our cars, the books we read, the albums we download and even our own health and wellness habits (to name just a few areas). With that in mind, GigaOM Pro has singled out certain areas in the technology industry where we see this shift to constant connectivity taking place most drastically. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
What the end of mobile Flash means for Apple and users
Adobe confirmed that it will no longer be developing mobile Flash on Thursday. It’s a major turning point for mobile dynamic content and video delivery, but it’s a step that will specifically affect Apple products and Apple users in unique ways. Here’s how. Read more »
Updated: Flash In The Pan: Adobe Confirms End Of Mobile Flash And 750 Jobs
Update: Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) how now posted an item on its own blog confirming that it will stop developing Flash for mobile devices, and will… Read more at paidContent »
Why Flash didn’t work out on mobile devices
It appears that the debate over whether supporting the Adobe Flash plug-in on mobile devices is a feature or not is over. Last night ZDNet got ahold of an announcement Adobe is set to make soon: that it is abandoning its work on Flash for mobile. Read more »
Main Street to Silicon Valley: We don’t even understand PDFs
In the tech blogosphere, chatter abounds about the latest collaboration tools, cutting edge ideas and the future of gadgets. But back on solid ground in cubicles, conference rooms and coworking spaces across the land, how much tech knowledge is actually filtering down to average employees? Read more »
Adobe’s Thomas Nielsen Named RealNetworks CEO
RealNetworks has chosen Thomas Nielsen as its new president and CEO, succeeding interim CEO Mike Lunsford. He starts next week and is intend… Read more at paidContent »
