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Apple and Disney have historically shared a close relationship, largely due to Disney's collaboration and subsequent acquisition of Pixar, which was owned by Apple founder Steve Jobs, and the subsequent friendship between Jobs and Disney CEO Bob Iger.
This is a list of assets currently or formerly owned by The Walt Disney Company, unless otherwise indicated. [1]As of October 2024, The Walt Disney Company, or just Disney, is organized into three main segments: Disney Entertainment, which includes the company's film, television, music and streaming media assets, ESPN (including ESPN+) and Disney Experiences.
The Walt Disney Company [22] 23 Tapulous: July 1, 2010 USA: Disney Mobile [23] 24 Playdom: August 27, 2010 USA: 563,000,000 747,000,000 Disney Interactive [24] 25 UTV Software Communications: January 31, 2012 India: 450,000,000 597,000,000 The Walt Disney Company India [25] 26 StudioEX December 10, 2012 South Korea: Disney Interactive [26] 27 ...
Martin cited Disney's lack of a successor to Iger, coupled with its shrinking linear television business, as key catalysts for a merger, adding Apple's $90 billion in annual free cash flow would ...
Back in 2005, Iger let Jobs sell individual episodes of Disney-owned shows like "Lost" through Apple's iTunes store, which was a big deal at the time.
A deal would give Apple access to 74 million cable subscribers and an ESPN+ streaming service that has another 24 million paying customers, according to Disney’s 2022 annual report.
Apple's largest acquisition was that of Beats Electronics in August 2014 for $3 billion. [7] Of the companies Apple has acquired, 71 were based in the United States. In early-May 2019, Apple CEO Tim Cook said to CNBC that Apple acquires a company every two to three weeks on average, having acquired 20 to 25 companies in the past six months alone.
Robert Alan Iger (/ ˈ aɪ ɡ ər /; born February 10, 1951) [3] is an American media executive who is chief executive officer (CEO) of The Walt Disney Company. [4] He previously was the president of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) between 1994 and 1995 and president and chief operating officer (COO) of Capital Cities/ABC, from 1995 until its acquisition by Disney in 1996.