Macromedia Flash—and its namesake file format—redefined the Internet browsing experience five years ago with scalable vector animations. Of the products in our roundup, Macromedia Flash 5 is the most ...

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 ...

Combining two of the largest makers of software for creating and delivering digital content, Adobe Systems Inc. said Monday it will acquire Macromedia Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at ...

Macromedia will launch the next stage of an ambitious product upgrade cycle Monday with new Web development and server tools that focus on better delivery of Web applications. The new products include ...

Macromedia on Monday plans to launch a new product that helps designers and developers create Web content accessible to everyone--particularly those with disabilities. The San Francisco-based software ...

Macromedia Inc. will announce on Thursday Macromedia Central, a Mac OS X compatible product that’s designed to extend Macromedia Flash beyond the browser. How? By allowing Internet applications to run ...

A year after Macromedia revealed ambitious plans to expand the reach of its Flash format, the software maker appears to have trouble building support for the effort among developers and information ...

When Macromedia Inc. was founded 10 years ago, the software firm quickly established itself as the anchor of an emerging San Francisco multimedia industry. At that point, Macromedia and other ...

Next month Macromedia will ship new versions of their MX product family, including updates of Flash, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. The company will also ship a new product, Flash MX Professional 2004, ...

Macromedia Flash is known as the authoring tool that brought vector graphics and interactive animation to the Web. But the Internet is no longer a one-way highway that merely disseminates ...

Macromedia, Inc. has announced a public beta for Macromedia Flash Player 8, the next-generation Flash Player client runtime. Flash Player is a high performance, lightweight runtime with cross-platform ...