154 stories by "Todd Spangler"
Apple could potentially find the cash to pull off a $200 billion-plus takeover Disney " creating a company worth $1 trillion with “almost limitless opportunities in content and tech…
YouTube is heading back to the desert: The video giant will exclusively live-stream the first weekend of Coachella 2017 for the seventh year in a row. From April 14-16, Coachella’s You…
Disney’s Club Penguin " the multiplayer online game that has kept kids entertained for more than 11 years " shut its doors for good at 12:01 a.m. PT on March 30. But Disney is hopin…
AT&T is aiming to herd more moviegoers into theaters with its buy-one-get-one-free ticket offer for customers " though it’s still limited to Tuesday screenings. The telco announced…
Maker Studios is shrinking: Parent company Disney is laying off 80 staffers in a restructuring of its publishing and digital media division, which includes Maker. Disney declined to reveal w…
Maker Studios is gearing up for some major cutbacks in personnel as Disney looks streamline its digital-video division to operate more efficiently — and produce bigger, more bankabl…
Laurene Powell Jobs is no longer Disney’s largest single shareholder, after she recently reduced her ownership stake in the Mouse House by half, regulatory filings show. Powell Jobs, t…
Disney will discontinue the Club Penguin subscription social game for desktop and mobile devices, and at the same will launch a new mobile game featuring the cartoon aquatic birds in March. …
Snapchat has pulled Disney-ABC Television Group into its expanding original programming orbit, with the parties setting a pact under which the Mouse House’s TV division will produce…
BAMTech, Major League Baseball’s streaming-video unit backed by Disney, has entered into a multiyear deal with Riot Games to deliver “League of Legends” eSports content aro…
Spanish-speaking moviegoers will have more options for listening to films en Español in cinemas, under multiyear pacts that app startup MyLingo has reached with Disney, Paramount Pictu…
Naturally, there’s a virtual-reality companion for the “Assassin’s Creed” movie starring Michael Fassbender based on Ubisoft’s popular video-game franchise. To …
Twitter is shutting down Vine, and pioneering live-streaming app Meerkat is dead. But that doesn’t mean short-form clips and live video are dead-end businesses. Two-year-old startup Mu…
Maker Studios has unveiled a slate of 15 original series rolling out this fall and winter on its game channel Polaris and newly relaunched comedy channel The Station. And the Disney-owned mu…
Reed Hastings fired back at cinema chains Friday, with the Netflix chief accusing theater owners of “strangling the movie business” by refusing to budge on windows to allow strea…
Disney and Google have decided to not move forward with bids for Twitter, which is hoping to secure a deal to sell itself by the end of the month, according to reports. Both Disney and Googl…
Netflix has inched its foot further through the movie-biz door: The streaming giant has reached a deal with iPic Entertainment, a luxury-theater chain with 15 U.S. locations, to …
Three months after its launch, Live.ly, the live-streaming video app from Musical.ly, has captured nearly 4.6 million monthly active users on Apple’s iOS platform in the U.S. " maki…
Apple has teamed with five Hollywood studios for six different ten-movie bundles — priced at $9.99, or a buck per movie — in a one-day promotion celebrating the 10th anniversary …
Live.ly, the live-streaming video app from Musical.ly that burst onto the scene last month, has now been downloaded more than 2 million times " helped by early adopters like singerÅ
Disney has struck a deal with Major League Baseball to acquire a one-third stake in the league’s MLB Advanced Media technology arm for about $3.5 billion, Bloomberg reported. Under the…
Disney has created a secure sandbox for preteens to get a taste of social media " without the risk that they’ll run into something age-inappropriate, scary or offensive. More important…
Live.ly, the live-streaming app from Musical.ly that officially launched four days ago, has zoomed to the top of Apple’s free apps chart " with almost 500,000 downloads so far " and…
Producer Scott Rudin has been elected to the board of Expedia, the online travel-booking company headed by chairman Barry Diller. Expedia disclosed Rudin’s appointment to the board eff…
A U.S. Senate investigation into pay-TV billing practices found that Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications " which completed their $67 billion merger in May " have regularly overbille…
