SEATTLE, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Voyager Capital, a leading West Coast venture capital firm, today announced that Bruce Chizen, former CEO of Adobe Systems, has joined the firm as a Venture Partner.

Business and mobile software and services company Adobe Systems has merged its Mobile and Devices Business Unit with its Experience and Technology group as it moves toward an integrated technology platform for PC, mobile handsets, and consumer devices.

Adobe Systems has announced the promotion of its vice president and chief software architect Kevin Lynch to chief technology officer.

By RACHEL KONRAD SAN FRANCISCO - Adobe Systems Inc. announced Monday that fourth-quarter profit surged 21 percent, beating Wall Street expectations thanks to record revenue after the company's biggest-ever software launch. Net income for the three months ending Nov.

By Mark Boslet, John Boudreau and M, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Dec. 1--Call it a case of creative destruction, conference-style. Offering another sign that Silicon Valley is moving away from its chip-making roots, the 20-year-old Microprocessor Forum has been canceled for 2008.