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Apple, Pixar, Adobe form Alliance for OpenUSD to boost next-gen AR Tech majors like Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk and NVIDIA, along with the Joint Development Foundation (JDF) which is an affiliate of the Linux Foundation, on Tuesday announced the Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) to promote the standardisation, development, evolution, and growth of Pixar’s Universal Scene Description technology. The alliance seeks to standardise the 3D ecosystem by advancing the capabilities of Open Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD).  By promoting greater in...
Apple, Pixar, Adobe form Alliance for OpenUSD to boost next-gen AR
Apple, Pixar, Adobe form Alliance for OpenUSD to boost next-gen AR
Source: IANS
2/08/2023 9:43:43 AM
Adobe expands Firefly globally, supports prompts in 8 Indian regional languages Software major Adobe on Wednesday announced the global expansion of Firefly (a generative AI system) that supports text prompts in over 100 languages, including eight Indian regional languages.  The eight Indian languages included -- Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu, enabling users across the world to generate images and text effects using their native languages in the standalone Firefly web service. The service will also be localised in 20 la...
Adobe expands Firefly globally, supports prompts in 8 Indian regional languages
Adobe expands Firefly globally, supports prompts in 8 Indian regional languages
Source: IANS
13/07/2023 10:10:40 AM
India`s Narendra Modi to address FedEx, Mastercard, other US CEOs at Kennedy Center Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet the CEOs of top American companies including FedEx, MasterCard and Adobe during his trip to the United States for an official state visit, a source with knowledge of the matter said. The CEO reception with more than 1,200 participants, including business leaders from U.S. and Indian companies such as Tech Mahindra and Mastek, will be held on June 23 at Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the source added. It will...
India`s Narendra Modi to address FedEx, Mastercard, other US CEOs at Kennedy Center
India`s Narendra Modi to address FedEx, Mastercard, other US CEOs at Kennedy Center
Source: Reuters
16/06/2023 4:34:21 PM
Adobe Acrobat turns 30 as people opened over 400 bn PDFs in Acrobat in 2022  It was 30 years ago that Adobe co-founder Dr John Warnock and his team invented the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Acrobat that allowed sharing of text and images digitally while preserving the original formatting of a document. With this, they solved a fundamental problem of communicating visual material between people, computer applications and systems. "In days of proprietary software and formats, the PDF specification was made public on day one for anyone to cre...
Adobe Acrobat turns 30 as people opened over 400 bn PDFs in Acrobat in 2022
Adobe Acrobat turns 30 as people opened over 400 bn PDFs in Acrobat in 2022
Source: IANS
16/06/2023 1:19:36 PM
Adobe expands India footprint, opens new office to host 2K employees Software major Adobe on Monday announced the opening of a state-of-the-art office tower in Bengaluru that will host over 2,000 employees. With over 7,800 employees spread across five campuses in the country, India is Adobe's largest employee base outside the US, and a major hub for software innovation, and business development. "Adobe was among the first technology companies to invest in India 25 years ago. Today, our India teams are central to Adobe's global innovation age...
Adobe expands India footprint, opens new office to host 2K employees
Adobe expands India footprint, opens new office to host 2K employees
Source: IANS
24/04/2023 5:22:54 PM
Adobe launches new generative AI to transform customer experiences  Software major Adobe has announced new generative AI innovations across its Experience Cloud that aims to redefine how businesses deliver customer experiences. In Adobe Experience Cloud, customers will be able to move seamlessly between Sensei GenAI services and existing features, right within their workflows, the company said during the 'Adobe Summit'. "Adobe has a long history of unlocking AI as a co-pilot for marketers, and we have a vision for generative AI that c...
Adobe launches new generative AI to transform customer experiences
Adobe launches new generative AI to transform customer experiences
Source: IANS
22/03/2023 11:45:30 AM
Indian firms investing more in content creation, workflow improvements Leading Indian brands have prioritised investments in the speed, scale and efficiency of their content creation capabilities and workflows to build stronger customer relationships and succeed in 2023, a new report revealed on Tuesday. According to the 2023 Digital Trends Report by Adobe, about 79 per cent of senior Asia Pacific (APAC) executives, including 92 per cent in India, say customer demand for content has significantly increased. "Customer demand for content-rich, personali...
Indian firms investing more in content creation, workflow improvements
Indian firms investing more in content creation, workflow improvements
Source: IANS
28/02/2023 2:36:45 PM
Reliance Industries ranked 20th in the world, highest among Indian companies in World`s Best Employers rankings Reliance Industries has been ranked highest amongst Indian companies in the list of Forbes World's Best Employers for 2022. RIL is ranked 20th in the world and the highest among Indian companies ahead of HDFC Bank at 137. Samsung was at the top spot in the ranking of World's Best Employers followed by Microsoft, IBM, Alphabet, Apple, Delta Airlines, Costco, Adobe, Southwest Airlines and Dell Technologies in the top ten, Reliance Industries with 2.3 lakh employees, is ranked 2...
Reliance Industries ranked 20th in the world, highest among Indian companies in World`s Best Employers rankings
Reliance Industries ranked 20th in the world, highest among Indian companies in World`s Best Employers rankings
Source: IANS
7/11/2022 9:20:23 AM
FICCI organising the 13th Global Skills Summit 2022 on September 27-28 After two years of absence due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the summit has entered its 15th year of inception. FICCI Skills is proud to have been a pioneer in creating India's largest skill conclave which sees participation from India and abroad. For years we have been discussing pertinent themes like skills and knowledge, emerging skills -- India 2020, Quality Paradigms in Vocational Training, New Age Skills for Today and Tomorrow and many more. This year the summit would focus on "...
FICCI organising the 13th Global Skills Summit 2022 on September 27-28
FICCI organising the 13th Global Skills Summit 2022 on September 27-28
Source: IANS
22/09/2022 12:59:25 PM
Adobe acquires design software firm Figma for $20 bn Software major Adobe on Thursday announced it would acquire design software company Figma for about $20 billion in a cash and stock deal. Founded by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace in 2012, Figma pioneered product design on the web. The combination of Adobe and Figma will usher in a new era of collaborative creativity. "Adobe's greatness has been rooted in our ability to create new categories and deliver cutting-edge technologies through organic innovation and inorganic acquisi...
Adobe acquires design software firm Figma for $20 bn
Adobe acquires design software firm Figma for $20 bn
Source: IANS
16/09/2022 8:58:56 AM
Two-thirds of CEOs aim to boost marketing technology spending About 68 per cent (two-third) of the chief marketing officers (CMOs) aim to increase their technology spending on marketing this year, a new report said on Monday. In 2021, Gartner estimated that Martech (marketing tech) made up 26.2 per cent of the average marketing budget. This is clearly not enough as CXOs want to expand their Martech stack further. Resulticks, a global leader in Martech, which was named in the 2022 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Multichannel Marketing Hubs (MMH), has...
Two-thirds of CEOs aim to boost marketing technology spending
Two-thirds of CEOs aim to boost marketing technology spending
Source: IANS
29/08/2022 2:40:18 PM
Amazon sees $12 bn worth sales on Prime Day globally Amazon saw sales worth at least $12 billion (according to third-party estimates) during its Prime Day event in the US and 15 more countries on July 12-13. It was the first Amazon Prime Day event under the new CEO Andy Jassy who took over from Jeff Bezos last year. According to an analysis by Digital Commerce 360, consumers worldwide spent more than $12 billion during the e-commerce giant's eighth annual Prime Day. That's up 8.1 per cent (year over year) from last years' P...
Amazon sees $12 bn worth sales on Prime Day globally
Amazon sees $12 bn worth sales on Prime Day globally
Source: IANS
17/07/2022 11:27:46 AM
Adobe hires Salesforce's Venu Juvvala to lead India digital experience biz Sotfware major Adobe on Monday announced the appointment of Venu Juvvala as Head of Digital Experience Business for the Indian market. Juvvala, who joins Adobe from Salesforce, will report to Prativa Mohapatra, Vice-President and Managing Director, Adobe India. "He brings a wealth of multi-sectoral knowledge and industry relationships and has a proven track record for leading high-performance teams and transforming some of the most prominent businesses in the country," said Mo...
Adobe hires Salesforce's Venu Juvvala to lead India digital experience biz
Adobe hires Salesforce's Venu Juvvala to lead India digital experience biz
Source: IANS
11/07/2022 5:14:22 PM
Soon prepare your artwork as an NFT on Adobe Photoshop Software major Adobe is set to soon launch Photoshop with an option to prepare your artwork as an non-fungible token (NFT) which the creators can link it to their crypto wallet and help tackle NFT art theft. Called 'Content Credentials', NFT sellers will be able to link the Adobe ID with their crypto wallet, allowing compatible NFT marketplaces to show that the art's source is authentic, The Verge reported on Tuesday. According to Adobe's chief product officer Scott Bels...
Soon prepare your artwork as an NFT on Adobe Photoshop
Soon prepare your artwork as an NFT on Adobe Photoshop
Source: IANS
27/10/2021 10:35:19 AM
Adobe updates Creative Cloud apps for Apple M1 Macs Adobe on Wednesday announced that it has released some major updates across its Creative Cloud apps, with an emphasis on performance gains for customers on Apple M1 Macs. The update indicates new features and workflow improvements across flagship desktop and mobile applications, the company said in a statement. Illustrator, InDesign and Lightroom Classic are now native apps for Apple's M1 Macs and based on 3rd-party benchmark testing, Creative Cloud is on average over 80 per cent fa...
Adobe updates Creative Cloud apps for Apple M1 Macs
Adobe updates Creative Cloud apps for Apple M1 Macs
Source: IANS
9/06/2021 4:57:58 PM
Adobe Illustrator for Apple silicon in beta released Software major Adobe has now started testing Illustrator on Apple's latest chip architecture, a move that has come less than a month after the release of Adobe Photoshop for Apple silicon. "We are excited to announce the first Beta release of Illustrator running natively on Apple Silicon hardware," Avinash Singh Kotwal, Senior Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator, said in a post at a 'UserVoice' forum late last week. "This early version of Illustrator for Apple ...
Adobe Illustrator for Apple silicon in beta released
Adobe Illustrator for Apple silicon in beta released
Source: IANS
5/04/2021 2:46:30 PM