Tag: DISNEY

Netflix and Disney/ABC have agreed to a big, fat content expansion deal which will give the popular streaming service access to more shows and movies from ABC, Disney, and ABC Family. The Netflix presser highlights the addition of Ugly Betty, Brothers & Sisters, Scrubs, and -- wait for it -- Hannah Montana. The newly-secured content will be on a 15-day delay -- likely to avoid stepping on ...

You thought the music to "It's a Small World" would drive you crazy? Try the careening refrains of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, a blacklight-ridden motorized kiddie ride at Disney World in Orlando, Florida. At least, you could try it until 1998, when the Mouse saw fit to toss the toad and replace him with a cute, cuddly, one-crayon-short-of-a-sharpener bear named Pooh. Enter obsessive compulsive ...

The rumors have been swirling around for a few weeks, but today the Walt Disney Company officially announced that it is becoming an equity partner in Hulu. Disney, through a subsidiary of ABC Enterprises Inc., will join NBC Universal and News Corp. as an investor and content provider. Full-length episodes from ABC primetime, ABC Family and SOAPnet will be added to Hulu's content library, as well ...

Get ready to watch some new content care of Google and the creator of the Family Guy series pretty soon. The company has just inked a deal with a movie financing company to syndicate video shorts made for internet viewing. The content will be handed over from the creators behind Family Guy, the fictional family from Quahog Rhode Island, and will feature original content staring Disney's ...

Disney is buying its way into social networking. The company today picked up kid-focused game and networking site Club Penguin for $350 million in cash. Disney will pay up to $350 million more if the company hits a series of performance goals by 2009. Club Penguin is described as a "virtual world," where kids can interact with one another and play games. The site was founded in 2005 and has 700 ...

Both NBC and Disney's ABC Family Channel are adding social aspects to their websites. Disney plans to test a new "watch and chat" feature that will let viewers watch video on the ABC Family Channel website while chatting with other viewers. On Monday night, users will be able to watch the season finale of Wildfire about an hour after the program broadcasts on the ABC Family Channel. Up to 10 ...

Sun's CIO dropped the news today that Google is using open source implementations of Solaris. Google is currently running Solaris in its data centers, but is looking forward to installing more Sun servers because of the open source Solaris. Given that they have hired on a list of previous Sun employees, it only looks promising for Google to test its own modified versions of Open Solaris. eBay, ...

The recent announcement last week of Disney teaming with Apple to provide movies online through iTunes has turned into a giant success. In the first week alone, iTunes has generated $1 million in the sales of 75 Disney films and 125,000 titles being sold. Disney has worked out some figures and estimates that this partnership will lead to a $50 million deal by the end of 2006. Best of all, there ...