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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... will also feature major industry figures such as: Cindy Rose, MD for Europe, Middle East & Africa, Walt Disney Internet Group; Paul Robinson, Managing Director Worldwide, KidsCo Ltd.; Rob Sorcher, Chief Content Officer, Cartoon Network; Ira Rubenstein, EVP, Global Digital Media Group, Marvel Entertainment, Inc.; Mostapha Mellouk, Deputy Managing Director, Al Jazeera Children’s; David Ripert,...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
... at Mipcom Junior include Cindy Rose, managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Walt Disney Internet Group; Rob Sorcher, chief content officer, Cartoon Network; Ira Rubenstein, exec VP, Global Digital Media Group, Marvel Ent.; Neil Ross Russell, managing director of children’s TV at BBC Worldwide; and Nicole Keeb, head of international co-productions and acquisitions, children...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
... social network ), which now feature Disney characters on their sites. CrunchBase Information Walt Disney Internet Group (Japan) Information provided by CrunchBase Crunch Network : MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.
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Mickey News (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
... be younger: Larry Shapiro, executive vice president of business development and operations for the Walt Disney Internet Group, estimates that more than 50% of 10-year-olds in the U.S. own phones. And Disney, Shapiro declares, wants to "own" those mobile customers. Disney is hardly new to the tricky mobile market for kids. In June 2006, the company became a mobile virtual network operator,...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The Web site is just one of many social networks from Disney, yet it's one of the company's first online efforts catered solely to adults. Disney's Walt Disney Internet group runs several prime time online kids' hangouts, including Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online, and Club Penguin, which it acquired.
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BRANDING UNBOUND (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... world. As Larry Shapiro, executive vice president of business development and operations for the Walt Disney Internet Group, tells the pub, the company estimates that more than 50% of 10-year-olds in the U.S. own phones. And Disney, Shapiro declares, wants to "own" them. In , I interview Shapiro about Disney's designs for mobile - and they are ambitious. While the , at least , mobile's a...
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
... be younger: Larry Shapiro, executive vice president of business development and operations for the Walt Disney Internet Group, estimates that more than 50% of 10-year-olds in the U.S. own phones. And Disney, Shapiro declares, wants to "own" those mobile customers. Disney is hardly new to the tricky mobile market for kids. In June 2006, the company became a mobile virtual network operator,...
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Market Wire - Environment (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
... Before that, Becky also held positions with Dynamics Direct, CBS Sportsline and The Walt Disney Internet Group. As a leading digital property, WeatherBug is consistently ranked as a top 10 News and Information site on the Web and a top six Web property overall in terms of average usage per day, according to comScore. Millions of consumers trust WeatherBug for live, local weather information,...
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The Disney Blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
... didn’t mention parents. Actually, Stephen Saiz, manager of consumer insight and strategy of the Walt Disney Internet Group’s North American mobile division did mention parents but it was in a less than flattering way. This CNET article quotes Saiz as saying, “Teens are pushing their parents to go on mobile because they don’t really want to communicate with them directly.” I am not sure about...
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Positive Technology Journal (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Via MobileGames The Walt Disney Internet Group has released the "Einstein's Brain Game" . The game proposes 20 brain training exercises covering Einstein’s theories of relativity and ideas about the solar system. It features 4 categories - maths, memory, logic and visual coordination, as well as a bonus Sudoku puzzle game, to give the brain a thorough work-out.
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Mickey News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Disney is reorganizing its gaming and Internet executive ranks following the merger last month of the two divisions. An internal memo from Steve Wadsworth, head of the merged unit now called Disney Interactive Media Group, outlined the new corporate structure. The most noteworthy move is the retirement of Mark Handler, formerly head of Walt Disney Internet Group International, though Handler...
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... Disney Interactive Studios/Buena Vista Games (prev. Walt Disney Computer Software) C. BROADCAST 1. Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) III. NEWS CORPORATION A. OVERVIEW B. NDS GROUP PLC (NASDAQ: NNDS) 1. Orbis Technology, Ltd. (Orbis) 2. VISIONIK 3. MediaHighway 4. Xtreamplay C. FOX INTERACTIVE MEDIA (FIM) 1. IGN Entertainment, Inc. (IGN) IGN.com. GameSpy Industries D. FOX ENTERTAINMENT GROUP...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Major executive changes at the Disney ( NYSE: DIS ) Interactive Media Group, according to an internal email from Steve Wadsworth that just went out and has been obtained by paidContent. DIMG combines the Walt Disney Internet Group, which Wadsworth headed, and video gaming unit Disney Interactive Studios. This memo lays out the new organization with two global lines of business—Disney Interactive...
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Next Generation (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Last month Disney Walt Disney Internet Group with Disney Interactive Studios to create a new division, Disney Interactive Media Group. According to a memo obtained by , DIMG president Steve Wadsworth has now outlined plans to make a number of executive changes as the new division takes shape under two lines of business. “In an effort to provide greater coordination on global content and global...
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The Disney Blog (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Disney Interactive Media = DIM. Sorry Disney, I couldn’t resist. They, of course, prefer the acronym DIMG, but that doesn’t sound out very well. DIG has been done and might have bad connotations at the Mouse House after that billion dollar debacle. So DIM it is. Maybe they work with the lights off…. But I digress. Disney Interactive and Walt Disney Internet Group are in the process of finalizing...
