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Adobe Systems Inc.

Adobe Systems Incorporated
Public
Traded as NASDAQADBE
NASDAQ-100 Component
S&P 500 Component
Industry Computer software
Founded December 1982; 34 years ago (1982-12)
Mountain View, California, U.S.
Founders John Warnock and Charles Geschke
Headquarters Adobe Systems complex,
San Jose, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
John Warnock and Charles Geschke
(Co-Founders)
Shantanu Narayen
(President, CEO, and Chairman of the Board)
Products List of Adobe products
Revenue IncreaseUS$4.795 billion (2016)
IncreaseUS$987 million (2016)
IncreaseUS$478 million (2016)
Total assets IncreaseUS$12.85 billion (2016)
Total equity IncreaseUS$7.89 billion (2016)
Number of employees
14,154 (Q1, 2016)
Website Adobe.com

Adobe Systems Incorporated /əˈdb/ is an American multinational computer software company. The company is headquartered in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe has historically focused upon the creation of multimedia and creativity software products, with a more recent foray towards rich Internet application software development. It is best known for Photoshop, an image editing software, Acrobat Reader, the Portable Document Format (PDF) and Adobe Creative Suite, as well as its successor Adobe Creative Cloud.

Adobe was founded in February 1982 by John Warnock and Charles Geschke, who established the company after leaving Xerox PARC in order to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. In 1985, Apple Computer licensed PostScript for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution.

As of 2015, Adobe Systems has about 13,500 employees, about 40% of whom work in San Jose. Adobe also has major development operations in Newton, Massachusetts; New York City, New York; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lehi, Utah; Seattle, Washington; San Francisco and San Luis Obispo, California in the United States.


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