Adobe Australia has flagged retrenchments and refused to rule out product consolidation after the company's US$3.4 billion acquisition of Macromedia is concluded later this year.
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Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
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