Walt Disney Co.
| 5:00PM 1/04/2012
The Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday that it reached a long-term agreement with the nation's largest TV signal provider, Comcast Corp., that extends their partnership into the next decade. The deal covers major pay channels ESPN, Disney Channel and ABC Family and the retransmission of free ABC broadcast network programs through seven ABC TV stations. It allows Comcast subscribers to gain greater access to shows on demand over the Internet on multiple devices.
| 1:15PM 11/17/2010
Hulu lowered the price of its newly launched Hulu Plus subscription service by $2 to $7.99 Wednesday, just days after the online streaming video service saw its rank decline on a closely watched Internet ranking service for the month of October.
| 4:45PM 11/11/2010
Profit fell 6.7% in Disney's fourth quarter. The company saw lower revenues from its theme parks and cruise line, and changed the way it booked revenue at ESPN. Movie revenues, though, were a bright spot.
| 8:30AM 7/07/2010
CEOs at some large public companies earn more per day than their employees earn over the course of an entire year. We took a look at some of the country's most well-known companies and calculated just how many workers the CEO's annual paycheck could afford to hire.
| 10:00AM 7/02/2010
Disney expanded deeper into iPhone territory with the purchase of a young start-up that has garnered top billing in Apple's App Store with millions of downloads for its Tap Tap Revenge game, among others.
| 6:30PM 6/23/2010
The Walt Disney Co.'s luxury real estate venture, the Golden Oak Residential Resort Community, may actually stand a chance -- even in Florida's depressed real estate market.
| 12:11PM 11/21/2009
Oprah Winfrey is a smart cookie. I am guessing she knows all too well that you can make more money in cable than you can on a TV network. If it's like other cable networks, her new Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which she co-owns with Discovery Communications (DISCA), will be much more profitable...
| 3:00PM 9/16/2009
With ABC, NBC and Fox all distributing their programming online through Hulu, it'd be awfully nice for viewers were CBS to throw in its shows as well, turning the site into a true one-stop destination for network TV. It doesn't sound like that's going to happen anytime soon, though.
"Frankly, it's...
| 3:30PM 5/19/2009
Since not every American can get to the Walt Disney Company's theme parks, the Walt Disney Company is coming to you. (OK, you, if you live anywhere near the Washington, D.C. area.)
It was recently announced that Disney just bought 15 acres in Prince George County, which is in Maryland....
| 5:30PM 4/21/2009
Companies looking for money in our arid economy might look to the world's growing need for multilingualism. According to the Wall Street Journal, both Rosetta Stone (RST), the language training company, and Walt Disney Co. (DIS) are showing that people are still willing to fork over their dinero to...