San Francisco - Major League Baseball Advanced Media announced that it has abandoned Microsoft's (NASD: MSFT) Silverlight video distribution platform and signed a two-year deal to instead use Adobe's (NASD: ADBE) Flash for its live and on-demand video offerings on MLB.com. The site will also provide an application built using Adobe AIR, that will provide additional features outside the Web browser.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE) on Thursday launched a public beta of Photoshop Express, a free, stripped-down online version of its popular photo editing software. The service, which uses Flash Player 9, allows registered users to store up to 2GB of images for free online. It also offers ways to upload and download photos between the service and social networking sites like Facebook.

San Francisco - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE) plans to work with Apple (NASD: AAPL) to enable Flash applications to run on the iPhone, according to Adobe CEO Shantau Narayen, who made the statement during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday, CNET News.com reported. "We've evaluated the SDK. We can now start to develop the Flash player ourselves, and we think it benefits our joint customers. So we want to work with Apple to bring that capability to the device," said Narayen, according to a transcript posted by Seeking Alpha. The comments come after statements from Apple CEO Steve Jobs that both Flash and Flash Lite would not work well on the iPhone.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE), the developer of Web publishing software, said on Monday that its philanthropic arm, the Adobe Foundation Fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, has awarded $1 million to the PBS Foundation. The grant will establish PBS's Adobe Youth Voices Venture Fund, which will help support professional and student producers in creating broadcast programming focused on youth-related subject matter, and also incorporate youth-generated video, animation and photography into public television broadcasts and websites.

Los Angeles - 56.com, a video-sharing website in China, has raised $20 million in its second round of venture capital financing, led by Hikari Private Equity, VentureBeat reported.

Sunnyvale, Calif. - Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) has partnered with

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems (NASD: ADBE), the maker of Web publishing software, has announced that Bruce Chizen, its CEO for the past seven years, will step down on Dec. 1.

San Francisco - FORA.tv, a provider of online video content "focused on discourse, discussion and debates surrounding the world's most compelling political, cultural and social issues," announced on Tuesday that it has raised an undisclosed sum of seed financing from Adobe Systems, and venture capitalist Will Hearst.

San Bruno, Calif. - Google's YouTube quietly launched a new version of its service for mobile phones last week, in addition to an online video-editing tool on its site. YouTube Mobile streams video to cell phones in the data-intensive 3GP format, and the company warns that users should upgrade their mobile service to an unlimited data plan to avoid additional charges. The Remixer video application is similar to the Flash-based version of Adobe Premiere Express that was launched on recent MySpace acquisition Photobucket.

Santa Cruz, Calif. - Media Rights Technologies (MRT), a developer of technology that protects streaming audio from being recorded, has sent cease and desist letters to Microsoft, Adobe, RealNetworks and Apple, claiming that by not licensing its technology, the companies are acting "without regard for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act or the rights of American Intellectual Property owners."

Las Vegas - Web and desktop publishing software developer Adobe on Monday introduced a new media player, essentially a standalone desktop version of its Flash Player browser plug-in.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems, a developer of Web publishing and business software, said on Monday that its board has authorized the company to buy back another 20 million shares under a new stock repurchase program.

Hudson Valley, N.Y. - Pump Audio, a provider of licensed independent music for use in various productions, said on Tuesday that it has partnered with online video and photo hosting service Photobucket, to provide music for Photobucket users creating photo and video mixes using the free Adobe mixing software recently added to the site. Photobucket's 35 million users may now add any of hundreds of licensed songs from Pump Audio's catalog of over 70,000 tracks to their mashup creations.

San Jose, Calif. - Adobe Systems announced on Wednesday that it has partnered with photo and video hosting provider Photobucket to integrate its new Web-based video remix and editing technology into the site. The free, Flash-based editing software is available now to Photobucket Pro users, and will be expanded to all of the site's 35 million members by early March. San Jose, Calif.-based Adobe said it expects to announce similar partnerships over the coming months.

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