Adobe buys Nitobi and Typekit for web-design tools

Adobe has announced it is to acquire two companies, Nitobi and Typekit, to give it more strength in a fast-moving area where it is playing catch-up.

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For years Adobe advocated its Flash Player technology for advanced web design, but now it is wholeheartedly on board with the biggest alternative: web standards including HTML, CSS and JavaScript. On Monday, in conjunction with its Adobe MAX developer and designer conference populated with the very people wrestling with that transition, the company announced the two acquisitions.

Each acquisition gives Adobe a solid new starting point for aspects of new-age technology. Nitobi makes PhoneGap, an open-source programming tool for creating web apps that run on a variety of mobile phones, while Typekit focuses on web-based typography.

For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Adobe buys PhoneGap, TypeKit for better Web tools on CNET News.