Rovio Still Talking Up A Mickey Mouse IPO, Now In Hong Kong
Is Rovio’s floatation ever going to happen? For some time now, we’ve been reading chatter about an imminent IPO.
The latest date is 2013, t…
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ESPN Adding Web TV Show, Apps In UK
ESPN (NYSE: DIS) is launching new UK services that begin to suggest a two- or more-screen strategy.
The sportscaster will this weekend laun…
Visage Mobile Picks Up Another $3.6 Million In Round Led By Qualcomm
Visage Mobile, the enterprise smartphone management developer formed out of the ashes of an MVNO-enabling business, has announced a Series C…
Disney Unveils Handsets For Japan Venture; Focusing On Women
Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young wor…
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Disney To Start Another MVNO, In Japan
Disney is planning another MVNO, this time in Japan according to the Nikkei business daily, reports Reuters. Not put off by two failures in…
Kajeet Offers Credit To Disney Customers
Kid-targeting MVNO Kajeet is dangling a carrot for customers of the defunct Disney (NYSE: DIS) MVNO — a $50 airtime credit to all Disney Mo…
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Updated: Disney Mobile Closing; Second Disney MVNO To Shutter; WDIG Will Explore Licensing A La ESPN
Updated below: Later this morning, sources close to the situation tell mocoNews.net, the Walt Disney (NYSE: DIS) Company will announce that…
Disney MVNO Closure: The History in Links
Disney (NYSE: DIS) MVNO lasted 15 months, and its history, in link (reverse chronological order):
— Disney MVNO: In Process of Evaluating
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Disney MVNO: In Process of Evaluating
Disney (NYSE: DIS) CFO Thomas Staggs spoke this morning at Merrill Lynch Media and Entertainment Conference in Marina Del Ray, and AlleyInsi…
Disney’s Japanese Mobile Social Network Wonder Days
Disney has a new mobile social network in Japan, called Wonder Days, described as a cross between Habbo Hotel and Mickey Mouse. It’s a rich…
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Disney Mobile, A Year Later
RCR has some stats from Disney on the usage of its kids-and-parents focused MVNO service Disney Mobile. About 30 percent of the MVNO’s subsc…
@ Billboard: AT&T’s Jim Ryan, Disney’s Larry Shapiro Square Off
The Billboard Mobile Entertainment Live at CTIA kicked off with a keynote by MTVN’s Greg Clayman (more on that in a bit). Now going on: an e…
Earnings: Disney’s Mobile Investments
Disney announced its Q3 results today, and not much details on mobile..some of them below: CFO Thomas Staggs said the investment in Disney M…
Disney Mobile Start Holiday Promo
Disney Mobile, the MVNO started by Disney and aimed at kids and parents, may have been feeling some heat from MobileESPN’s closure, and is t…
Interview: Steve Wadsworth, President, Walt Disney Interactive: Disney MVNO Post ESPN
[By Staci D. Kramer] Over the past few months I’ve spoken with Steve Wadsworth, president, Walt Disney Interactive, about Disney’s MVNO pla…
@MES: Changing Channels, Going Off Portal, The Rise Of User Gen & The Persistence Of Games
The US mobile content market is going off-portal if this panel is to be believed…”Three years ago coming to the US was like stepping back…
Disney Mobile’s 30-Minute Infomercial On ABC Family
Little bit of corporate-synergy help for Disney for the continuing rollout of its MVNO Disney Mobile: it is producing a half-hour TV series…
Mossberg: Disney Mobile: “Smart Idea” Works Well; Some Drawbacks
One piece of good news for Disney Mobile — a fairly positive review from the WSJ’s Walt Mossberg, who says after testing “overall, we think…
Disney Mobile Drops UK Launch Due to “Competitive Environment”
Well, someone finally had some financial prudence: Disney has shelved plans to launch an MVNO in the U.K., saying the market is in flux. It…
Disney Mobile Launches TV Ad Campaign
Disney Mobile has announced a TV ad campaign run by SF-based BuderEngel and Friends. “The commercials target parents, highlighting the compr…
Will The Disney-Branded MVNO Fare Better?
I managed to get the ML client report I mentioned last night, and I’ll report more later, but a quick one on Disney Mobile, the kids-MVNO……
Disney Soft-Launches Mobile Phone Service, Online
Disney Mobile, whose sister MVNO MobileESPN has not being doing as well as expected, has soft-launched its MVNO service online. Service plan…
Meet the Cell-Phone Tracking Parents
In this article on tracking cellphones (either via GPS or by base tower triangulation) there’s an interesting throw-away line…”In the U.S.…
Disney Mobile MVNO: Launching June
The second MVNO service from Disney’s stable, Disney Mobile, is set to launch today at CTIA…we’ve covered the run up to the launch in some…
