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...Florida lawmakers yesterday voted to revoke Walt Disney’s decades-old ability to govern the area around the Walt Disney World theme park in a move seen as retaliation from the Republican state governor Ron...
...In the blue corner: Pearson, a shrunken ex-conglomerate, former owner of the Financial Times, a textbook publisher hated by many teachers, now led by former Walt Disney executive Andy Bird....
...In the media sector Walt Disney, which has had tremendous success with its streaming service during the pandemic, also releases results....
...Much of the repositioning has come in the form of letters signed by scores of chief executives: in the past year, the likes of Walt Disney and Goldman Sachs have joined forces with AFL-CIO union leaders...
...NBCUniversal, Viacom and WarnerMedia on Thursday followed Netflix and Walt Disney in warning that restricting women’s reproductive rights could harm their ability to operate in the state where films such...
...Last month, Rupert Murdoch shocked friends and colleagues with the decision to break up the entertainment empire that took him decades to assemble, striking a deal to sell most of it to Walt Disney....
...In other news, Walt Disney won US antitrust approval for its $71bn Fox deal. If you’re not signed up to the FT’s daily deals newsletter, you’re missing a trick....
...(FT, Bloomberg) In the news Disney offers to buy Sky News Walt Disney has waded into the years-long dispute over Rupert Murdoch’s influence in UK media by offering to buy Sky News, a move aimed at easing...
...Weibo came close to eclipsing Twitter when the latter’s shares tumbled in October when it transpired that rumoured suitors, including Walt Disney and Salesforce, had failed to materialise....
...The town was confected two decades ago by the Walt Disney Company to be an idealised sliver of mid-20th century Americana — a carefully curated haven of wooden verandas, front porches and picket fences,...
...Univision last year bought The Root, an African-American focused news and culture website, and it is a co-owner with Walt Disney of Fusion, an English-language news and lifestyle TV network and website....
...Comcast-Dreamworks talks Comcast is in talks to buy DreamWorks Animation for more than $3bn, according to people familiar with the matter, in a deal that could make the cable giant a rival to Walt Disney...
...Television executives started sounding the alarm last autumn when Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney began reporting lower advertising revenues for some or all of...
...Akamai Technologies, a content delivery network, said online video traffic peaked at 5.7 terabits of data per second during the USA v Belgium game, a record for a single World Cup match this year....
...(Financial Times) “Walt Disney is in talks to acquire popular online-video producer Maker Studios for about $500 million, said people with knowledge of the discussions, a deal that could give the entertainment...
...Shares in Comcast have tracked content stocks such as CBS, Time Warner and Walt Disney remarkably closely over the past year....
...Electronic Arts spent heavily promoting Battlefield 3, and games such as Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Activision’s World of Warcraft with advertisements featuring actors including Chuck Norris....
...It will create the country’s largest entertainment company; rivalling Disney, which Comcast failed to buy in 2004 for $60bn....
...Ovitz, meanwhile, departed for Walt Disney as the number two to then chief executive Michael Eisner....
...Little more than three months into his tenure as undisputed king of the Mouse House, Robert Iger, the Walt Disney chief executive, has stepped out of the long shadow cast by his predecessor, Michael Eisner...
...So when Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Animation and nephew of founder Walt Disney, abruptly resigned in November 2003 and declared war on chairman and chief executive Michael Eisner, he sent shock...
...He also hinted that Andersen probably had a stronger tie to Disney - with its talking and anxious kettles and mice....
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