The Department of Justice is closely inspecting Adobe's eye-wateringly expensive purchase of web-first collaboration design startup Figma after making a second request for information from the pair.The $20 billion cash and stock acquisition was announced in September and sent some corners of the creative industry into meltdown over concerns Adobe will merge the new plaything with its XD software and up the price list.According to some reports, the DoJ has spent time contacting customers, competitors, and Figma's venture capital backers to collate views on the sale with a possible antitrust investigation in the offing.In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) this week, Adobe said it and Figma filed a notification and report form in relation to the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements (HSR) Act with the DoJ and Federal Trade Commission on October 14.- Adobe lowers 2022 forecast, blames Ukraine war, strong dollar- Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service- Inkscape adds multi-page support with v1.2 update- David Holz, founder of AI art generator Midjourney, on the future of imaging- Ever wondered where the 'cloud' was in Adobe Creative Cloud?"