AP - Publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said Wednesday it signed a multiyear distribution agreement with Web search engine Google Inc.

Reuters - Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said on Wednesday that it signed a multiyear agreement with Google Inc. to distribute the Google Toolbar with various Adobe products.

AP - Adobe Systems Inc., which makes software such as Acrobat for creating digital documents, reported an 18 percent drop in second-quarter profit as acquisition costs negated higher sales.

AP - Adobe Systems Inc., which makes software such as Acrobat for creating digital documents, reported a drop in second-quarter profit as acquisition costs negated higher sales.

Reuters - Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. on Thursday posted a lower quarterly net profit, weighed down by higher costs related to its acquisition of Macromedia.

Reuters - Some options investors, showing confidence in the prospects of Adobe Systems Inc. , are betting on more gains in the stock of the design software maker ahead of release of its earnings.

Reuters - Microsoft Corp. said it expected Adobe Systems Inc. to file an antitrust suit in Europe after talks to use Adobe's technology broke down this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.

AP - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed Thursday to send the California National Guard to the Mexican border, ending a 17-day standoff with the Bush administration, a Schwarzenegger spokesman said.

AP - Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is wounded and vulnerable, and yet the two Democrats vying to unseat him are tearing each other apart in the very nightmare scenario party leaders had feared.

Macworld.com - Several online Web sites have posted information in the past couple of days stating that Adobe Systems will discontinue development and support for two of its products: GoLive and Freehand. Adobe says the reports are not correct and the products are not being discontinued.

Macworld.com - A 28-year-old Ukrainian man, Maksym Vysochanskyy, was sentenced late Monday in federal court in San Jose to 35 months in prison for his role in selling pirated copies of software from Adobe Systems, Autodesk, Borland Software and Microsoft through Web sites he operated and on eBay, according to Kevin Ryan, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

InfoWorld - Adobe Systems on Thursday will debut technology intended to make AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) programming easier for Web designers.

Reuters - Stock futures rose on Thursday, boosted by falling oil prices and strength in corporate earnings as diversified manufacturer Tyco International Ltd. reported higher-than-expected profit.

Shaveta Bansal - AHN Contributor San Francisco, CA (AHN) – Adobe systems announced that it expects revenue and profit for the second quarter to be at the lower end of its target given on March 22. At that time Adobe was expecting second-quarter revenue of $640 million to $670 million....

Reuters - Design software maker Adobe Systems Inc. said on Tuesday it sees second- quarter profit and revenue at the low end of its previous targets due to weaker-than-expected demand during the spring holiday periods in Europe and North America.

Macworld.com - A version of Adobe Systems Inc.’s flagship Photoshop software that will run on Mac computers based on either the legacy PowerPC or new Intel platform will be available in the first half of next year, the company’s CEO said Friday.

Adobe Systems Inc. has signed a deal with U.S. second largest wireless provider, Verizon Wireless to build Flash animation software into Verizon mobile phones. Without disclosing financial details or potential launch...

Reuters - Adobe Systems Inc. unveiled a deal on Wednesday with Verizon Wireless , the second largest U.S. wireless provider, to build Flash animation software into Verizon mobile phones.