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Adobe Teams With Box To Improve Digital Document Workflow

Digital media software company Adobe Systems ( ADBE ) has teamed up with online document storage firm Box ( BOX ) to improve enterprise document workflow. Through the partnership announced Tuesday , Adobe will provide Document Cloud services to Box customers. Those services include e-signatures and the ability to edit PDF documents directly in Box. Adobe created the PDF, or portable document format. The partnership’s goal is to help transform document workflows, Bryan Lamkin, Adobe executive vice president and general manager of digital media, told IBD. Too many document workflows today still involve paper for signatures when they could be kept entirely electronic, he said. Adobe teamed up with Box because it’s a popular service among businesses for storing and sharing documents securely, Lamkin said. Box customers have stored more than 2 billion PDF documents on the service. “We want to go to where the PDFs are,” Lamkin said. “It’s a very natural partnership to team up with Box.” Box CEO Aaron Levie concurred. “Our job, and Adobe’s mission as well, is to transform the way that organizations and businesses are working with their digital information,” Levie told IBD. “What you’ll see in this partnership is what the future of the digital landscape looks like, where you have two best-of-breed companies coming together and leveraging our respective platforms to drive new experiences in the cloud.” Access to Adobe Document Cloud services, such as Acrobat DC and Adobe Sign, from the Box website is expected by the end of May. The ability to add a Box account to Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader on the desktop is expected around the same time. Adobe, an IBD Leaderboard stock, was down a fraction, near 95.50, in morning trading on the stock market today . It hit a record high of 98 on March 18. Box stock was up more than 1% Tuesday morning, near 13.50. UBS analyst Brent Thill on Tuesday reiterated his buy rating on Adobe with a price target of 114. After meeting with Adobe’s management, Thill concluded that Adobe has “plenty of runway for years” from its current business pursuits. Adobe’s annual revenue run rate of $5.5 billion is a fraction of the company’s total addressable market of $48 billion, he said. Adobe has three cloud computing businesses: Creative Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Document Cloud. The biggest is Creative Cloud, which includes software for creative professionals such as Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. Marketing Cloud provides online marketing and advertising services. Document Cloud leverages Adobe’s popular online document-sharing product Acrobat and its ubiquitous PDF format. RELATED: Adobe Stock Gets Price-Target Hike But Seen As Fairly Valued

Apple Supplier NXP Semiconductors Earnings Top Ahead Of Apple Report

Apple ( AAPL ) supplier NXP Semiconductors ( NXPI ) late Monday reported first-quarter earnings that fell a little less than estimates, a day before Apple itself is expected to report declining profit and a sharp drop in iPhone sales. NXP Semi gave guidance that was in line to slightly above forecasts. Earnings per share fell nearly 16% to $1.14 a share excluding various items vs. $1.35 a year earlier. Revenue, fueled by acquisitions, climbed about 52% to $2.224 billion from $1.467 billion a year earlier. Economists had expected EPS of $1.09 and sales of $2.21 billion. Comparable revenue fell 11% vs. a year earlier, NXP said, citing “semiconductor industry weakness that accelerated throughout the second half of 2015.” For Q2, NXP Semiconductors sees revenue of $2.295 billion to $2.395 billion, with the midpoint at $2.345 billion. It expects EPS of $1.30-$1.40, with the midpoint at $1.35. Analysts expected EPS of $1.32 and revenue of $2.34 billion. NXP Semiconductors is a leading chip supplier for the Apple iPhone and Samsung smartphones. But it’s also a major supplier of chips for the auto industry, especially after its recent acquisition of Freescale Semiconductor. Auto-related chip sales hit $805 million, up 167% vs. a year earlier on a reported basis, or just 1% with Freescale’s year-earlier results included. But auto-related sales should rise in the “mid- to high-single digit” percentages in Q2, NXP said in its Tuesday morning conference call. NXP is aiming for a long-term gross profit margin of 51%-55 and an operating margin above 30%. In Q1, NXP’s gross profit was 26.8% on a GAAP basis and 50% non-GAAP. Operating profit was -21.2%, or 23.3% non-GAAP. NXP shares jumped 5.3% to 87.75 in morning trade on the stock market today  after rising as high as 89.79. Shares closed down 1.2% to 83.34 on Monday, closing just above the 200-day line, where NXP has been finding support lately. Apple fell 0.5% to 104.51 intraday, after falling below its 50-day line intraday. The stock retreated 0.6% to 105.08 on Monday. Analysts expect Apple earnings to fall 14% to $2 a share and sales 10% to $51.97 billion, with iPhone unit sales down 21%. On Monday, NXP investors reacted to news that its chips are not in the latest Apple Retina MacBook, according to an iFixit teardown , after having several chips in the 2015 model.   Broadcom ( AVGO ) and Texas Instruments ( TXN ) remain big chip suppliers. Texas Instruments reports earnings on Wednesday. Texas Instruments rose 0.5% Tuesday morning while Broadcom climbed 1.4%.  

Verizon Spills Beans On Go90 Video Service, Yahoo, To Analysts

Verizon Communications ( VZ ) aims to expand its ad-supported Go90 mobile video service to multiple video streaming platforms starting by mid-2016, say sell-side analysts briefed at a meeting on Monday. Verizon’s analyst meeting came after Verizon reported Q1 revenue on April 21 that missed estimates . On Monday, Verizon executives discussed a broad range of market opportunities, including offering  5G wireless broadband services by 2020. Verizon has not disclosed how many subscribers it has for Go90, which targets millennials (ages 18 to 34) and Gen Zers (teens). Verizon launched the Go90 service in September. Verizon plans to “extend Go90 from a mobile app to a multiscreen platform in an attempt to drive scale and distribution of advertising from Verizon’s owned content,” said Paul de Sa, an analyst at Bernstein Research, in a report. Go90 provides a mix of original Web TV series, live sports, concert streaming, prime-time TV and more. “By midyear, Go90 will leverage (Verizon-owned) AOL and be available on multiple platforms,” said Macquarie analyst Amy Yong in a research report. Verizon management told analysts that the company plans to expand its digital media strategy with or without Web portal Yahoo ( YHOO ). Verizon, which acquired AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015, has stated its interest in buying part or all of Yahoo. The Internet firm is reviewing offers from Verizon, private equity firms and other entities. By acquiring AOL, Verizon gained both online content and advertising technology . With AOL’s “programmatic” ad technology, Verizon aims to provide advertisers with tools to target users with the most relevant ads based on anonymous subscriber data. Verizon last year also snapped up online ad firm Millennial Media for a reported $250 million. Alphabet ’s ( GOOGL ) Google and Facebook ( FB ) now reap the lion’s share of mobile advertising revenue. Verizon says that the mobile ad market is growing fast, providing room for many companies to grow, and that it doesn’t need Google’s scale to succeed. Verizon told analysts that it does need to “out-google Google,” said Colby Synesael, a Cowen & Co. analyst, in a report.  Verizon has around 100 million wireless phone subscribers to target, Synesael said.