Desktop publishing specialist Adobe Systems is buying multimedia applications maker Macromedia in a $3.4 billion deal geared toward building a software powerhouse. The all-stock deal, announced Monday ...

Software maker Adobe Systems is set to dump a bit of rain on rival Macromedia's parade Monday. While Macromedia executives tout one of the company's biggest product launches ever--Web design tool ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — By acquiring rival software maker Macromedia in a deal originally valued at $3.4 billion, Adobe Systems is positioning itself to do battle with Microsoft over the tools to create, ...

Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Under the terms of ...

Software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said on Monday it agreed to buy multimedia software firm Macromedia Inc. for about $3.4 billion in stock to extend its lead in the market for creating and ...

Adobe Systems has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by ...

Software maker Adobe Systems won its lawsuit Thursday claiming that rival Macromedia infringed on the company's patents. Adobe filed the suit in August 2000, alleging that the user interface of ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Adobe Systems Inc., one of the world's largest providers of document-design software, will acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion, ...

Adobe will reduce part of its workforce in light of its acquisition of Macromedia, saying Monday that employees who don’t lose their jobs may be offered relocation packages. Layoffs will occur in jobs ...

Adobe Systems Chief Executive Bruce Chizen says it took the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks for him to end a two-year feud with Macromedia’s Rob Burgess. Three years later, a new threat from ...

Adobe today responded to a lawsuit filed by its competitor Macromedia. The lawsuit, filed last Friday, claims Adobe knowingly infringed on two of its patents. Specifically, Macromedia claims that ...