Dennis Publishing, publishers of 70 print and online titles including Maxim, Men’s Fitness and the adult comic Viz, has not been shy to dip its toes into the world of apps, with six dedicated tablet and smartphone products representing its mass market magazines. This week, it announced a deal that…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes—having just today lost its CTO as he took an indefinite leave of absence—but CEO Stephen Elop is still slugging away in the handset maker’s comeback strategy. Today, he laid out some of Nokia’s biggest challenges and opportunities, making the case for how…

If you believe Disney’s every digital-minded move is dictated by board member Steve Jobs, note that its latest acquisition, Rocketpack, is intended to be of use outside the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) App store. The purchase was first reported by Techcrunch.

The New York Times reports that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) CEO Shantanu Narayen held a secret meeting recently. On the table, according to unidentified sources: A purchase of Adobe by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). A deal would combine two legacy software businesses (Photoshop, Dreamweaver; Office, Windows) and—the…

The Apple-Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) tussle is heating up to bizarre proportions, with Steve Jobs yesterday issuing a public defense for Apple’s anti-Flash stance. Call it a blog-heard-round-the-world, due to how quickly Jobs’ comments spread. Appropriately, much of the focus has been placed on Jobs’ technical arguments. But there’s another big…

On Monday morning, I helped Beet.tv executive producer Andy Plesser host his latest roundtable discussion on the future of online video, at The Guardian’s Kings Place HQ. The forthcoming HTML5 standard’s Google-backed video feature now poses a potential challenge to Adobe’s dominant Flash video standard, and is a key piece…

By Jemima Kiss: LinkedIn continues to buck the recession business trend of slimming down by expanding out, today announcing the launch of a dedicated site for Germany. The service will be bad news for Xing, the market-leading business social network in Germany and much of Europe but LinkedIn, headed by…

Adobe Systems (NSDQ: ADBE) has made a European acquisition: it has bought YaWah, a dynamic imaging software provider based in Aarhus, Denmark. The acquisition will be integrated within Adobe Scene7, its hosted rich media platform designed for eCommerce and multi-channel marketing companies. Scene7 is used by companies such as QVC,…

The BBC is moving away from desktop apps made by Microsoft-backed Skinkers and instead bringing production in-house, switching to Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash-based cross-platform Flex and AIR frameworks. John O’Donovan, BBC future media and technology’s chief architect for journalism, explained that its desktop alert apps like Mini Motty and news…

Professional social network LinkedIn is getting serious about expanding outside the US to help grow its share of the social net market. In January, after months of speculation that the company was on the block, it finally admitted that yes, it had considered that option, but no, they had decided…

Macromedia, in the process of being bought out by Adobe, has bought out Bracknell, UK-based mobile UI design firm Mobile Innovation. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Thanks to Mobile Innovation’s acumen in UI design and implementation, Macromedia will improve its ability to provide customers and partners with a…

So much for using Flash on mobiles: in UK, T-Mobile has axed its News Express mobile Flash service, one of the first mobile content areas to be hit by the operator’s strategic restructuring. News Express launched last July as the first mobile Flash content from a UK operator, sparking a…