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• Adobe acquires Auditude to address video advertising

  Adobe Systems has acquired privately owned Auditude in order to boost its video offerings with an advertising platform, the company said on Tuesday.

• Adobe to fix Flash flaw that allows webcam spying

  Adobe is working on a fix for a Flash Player vulnerability that can be exploited via clickjacking techniques to turn on people's webcams or microphones without their knowledge.

• Adobe embraces touch with six new apps

  Adobe plans to release six applications designed to be used exclusively on touch-based devices, including apps to execute creative tasks such as photo editing and Web page design, the company announced Monday.

• Adobe launches cloud services for content creators

  Adobe is planning to launch a series of Internet-hosted services, called Creative Cloud, designed for creators of digital content, the company said Monday.

• Microsoft, Adobe unleash flood of security updates

  Today is Patch Tuesday again. The ninth of the year already. Microsoft has released five new security bulletins, and Adobe has joined the party with some security patching of its own today. With all of the vulnerabilities and updates, though, you need to take a step back to prioritize and figure out which patches are most urgent.

• Adobe AIR 2.7 improves performance for mobile devices

  Adobe Systems on Tuesday announced the availability of an upgrade to the AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime) SDK and runtime.

• Free software activists to stop UK gov't promotion of Adobe

  Free software advocates have criticized what they call the British government's promotion of proprietary software.

• Adobe launches HTML5 rich media editor

  Planting the seeds to potentially disrupt its own successful franchise in Flash-based animation, Adobe has released a preview version of a new application, called Adobe Edge, designed for assembling dynamic Web content using HTML5 and related open Web standards, the company announced Monday.

• Adobe, EchoSign face patent infringement suit

  Adobe Systems and EchoSign, the electronic signatures company it acquired Monday, were sued on Tuesday by RPost, another electronic signature services company, for alleged infringement of five of its patents relating to electronic signature services.

• Wall Street Beat: Enterprise IT software sales up

  Oracle, Red Hat, Tibco and Adobe this week showed that software sales, especially for products geared for the enterprise, continue to be strong even though economic worries have caused confidence in the tech sector to decline.

• Adobe's CTO pitches 'apps near you' concept

  Next-generation applications will be location-specific, offering users information and features related to where they are at any given moment, Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch, said at the Open Mobile Summit conference on Thursday.

• Advocacy group targets Apple as a tax 'cheater'

  A new liberal advocacy group has targeted Apple as a tax "cheater" for its leadership in a coalition calling for Congress to allow U.S. companies to return foreign earnings to the country at a greatly reduced tax rate.

• Adobe gives users privacy control with Flash Player 10.3

  Adobe has released Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android.

• Adobe Flash update puts users in charge of privacy

  Adobe has released an important update to its Flash Player software that fixes critical security flaws and gives users a better way of controlling whether they are being tracked on the Web.

• Adobe Photoshop iPad apps arrive

  Adobe's Photoshop companion apps for Apple's iPad are now available in the App Store. The three apps, Color Lava, Eazel and Nav, were first announced last month and follow an update for Adobe Photoshop CS5, which is required in order to use the companion apps. The apps work with Photoshop for PCs and Macs.