Adobe owns the Photoshop and Acrobat software brands and trades under the ticker ADBE. The company began as a developer of software for digital publishing and became especially known for graphics, documents, and creative-production tools.
Adobe acquired Aldus in 1994, bringing PageMaker and other publishing technology into its portfolio. It later expanded Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and Acrobat into a broad suite used by creative professionals, businesses, students, and government organizations.
Adobe shifted much of its software business from perpetual licenses to subscriptions through Creative Cloud and Document Cloud. That transition changed how customers paid for products and created recurring revenue, helping Adobe become one of the most valuable software companies. Acrobat and Photoshop are separate applications, not two names for the same product.