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The Walt Disney Company [22] 23 Tapulous: July 1, 2010 USA: Disney Mobile [23] 24 Playdom: August 27, 2010 USA: 563,000,000 747,000,000 Disney Interactive [24] 25 UTV Software Communications: January 31, 2012 India: 450,000,000 597,000,000 The Walt Disney Company India [25] 26 StudioEX December 10, 2012 South Korea: Disney Interactive [26] 27 ...
The deal was finalized in May 2006. Pixar executive Ed Catmull would serve as president of both Pixar and Disney feature animation studios. Pixar executive vice president John Lasseter became chief creative officer for Pixar and the feature animated studios as well as helping to develop new Disney theme park attractions. [62]
This had followed a skirmish between Jobs and then–Disney CEO Michael Eisner over distribution arrangements, [14] [15] which led to a falling out between the two companies until Bob Iger's ascension as CEO in 2005. [13] As a result of the merger, Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder and joined Disney's board of directors. [10]
Disney to Acquire Lucasfilm Ltd. Global leader in high-quality family entertainment agrees to acquire world-renowned Lucasfilm Ltd, including legendary STAR WARS franchise. Acquisition continues ...
A Pixar computer at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View with the 1986–95 logo on it. Pixar got its start in 1974, when New York Institute of Technology's (NYIT) founder, Alexander Schure, who was also the owner of a traditional animation studio, established the Computer Graphics Lab (CGL) and recruited computer scientists who shared his ambitions about creating the world's first ...
That’s because, with the January collapse of the $10 billion Sony-ZEE merger plans and late February’s confirmation that Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries (which incorporates Viacom18 …
India’s entertainment landscape shifted Thursday as Reliance Industries and Disney completed their long-awaited media merger, creating an Indian powerhouse valued at $8.5 billion. The deal ...
Jobs's holdings in Disney far exceeded those of Eisner, who holds 1.7%, and of Disney family member Roy E. Disney, who until his 2009 death held about 1% of the company's stock and whose criticisms of Eisner—especially that he soured Disney's relationship with Pixar—accelerated Eisner's ousting. Upon completion of the merger, Jobs received ...