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AS Profile He's also on the board of Disney, since it acquired Pixar last year. Apple's long-awaited mobile phone is the main reason its CEO Steve Jobs has leapt back up the Agenda Setters rankings. Apple launched the iPhone at the end of June in the US, and... [12 Oct 2007]
Minority Report: Apple in your living room
Comment Jobs' Hollywood links - as Disney's major stakeholder and his tenure as CEO of Pixar - will no doubt aid negotiations. Having secured a lead in digital music, Apple now hopes to rule the digital movie scene too. [09 Oct 2006]
Apple uncloaks iTunes movie downloads
News The studios are Miramax, Pixar Animation Studios, Touchstone Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures. Jobs earlier this year became a member of the board at the venerable entertainment company, which acquired Pixar, where Jobs is CEO. [13 Sep 2006]
Intel unveils 'lean, mean, AMD-busting' Xeon
News Pixar compared preproduction servers using the Xeon 5100 processors with machines using older Intel products. Power consumption is extremely important to the developers at Pixar working on their next movie, said Greg Brandeau, the vice president of... [27 Jun 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.04.06
Round-Up Selling Pixar, putting Intel and XP inside the Mac, that kind of thing. Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Seattle and its environs this week to meet Bill Gates at Microsoft's pristine headquarters to talk shop. [21 Apr 2006]
Minority Report: Disney, Pixar and Apple - what happens next
Comment Pixar short films have been available on iTunes since video met the iPod. However, rather than a Pixar buyout, many speculated Jobs was in pole position to take over from former chief executive and adversary Michael Eisner. [03 Feb 2006]
Disney splashes $7.4bn on Pixar buy
News Walt Disney announced on Tuesday it's paying $7.4bn in stock to acquire Pixar Animation Studios - a deal that puts Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Disney's board of directors. For the venerable animation giant, the move is a significant bet on Pixar's... [25 Jan 2006]
Gates tops list of most-admired business chiefs
News Among the 15 executives listed - along with number one Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and number two Jobs, CEO of both Apple and Pixar Animation Studios - were Dell chairman Michael Dell (number four), NR Narayana Murthy, chairman of Infosys... [15 Dec 2005]
iTunes breaks one million video barrier
News Apple currently has about 2,000 music videos, a small collection of Pixar Animation Studios shorts and episodes of five ABC television shows. Apple said on Monday that it has sold more than one million videos in the 19 days since it launched its... [31 Oct 2005]
Minority Report: What would Apple be without Jobs?
Comment Likewise we've heard about his exit from Apple a year later, buying Pixar, starting software firm NeXT - and then selling it to Apple, the move which brought him back to the company he founded. Meanwhile, Jobs' role as CEO of Pixar will add... [07 Oct 2005]
Maya on the Dell Precision M60: 3D, Anytime, Anywhere!
White Paper When the application engineers and product specialists of Alias - creator of Maya, the Academy Award-winning 3D animation and effects software package used by entertainment industry giants such as Industrial Light and Magic, Pixar, Sega, and Sony... [27 Sep 2005]
Minority Report: Apple as media company - and why that's good for Macs
Comment Jobs' other existence as CEO of Oscar-winning animation company Pixar would no doubt help smooth any negotiations and add credibility to arguments for delivering movies and other video content through iTunes (if that brand is still appropriate for... [02 Sep 2005]
iTunes finally arrives in the UK
News Those without enthusiasm for the Top 40 are also catered for, with a choice of 5,000 audio books and 12,000 classical numbers and, for the young at heart, exclusive Disney and Pixar soundtracks. Prefaced by honky-tonk numbers and old-time crooning... [15 Jun 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 13.02.04
Round-Up Protracted negotiations between Pixar and Disney to extend their highly lucrative partnership broke down recently. The announcement must have been music to Bill Gates' ears considering the company's DRM offering has so far failed to occupy the... [13 Feb 2004]
Stars come out to see iTunes for Windows launched
News In large measure due to Jobs' negotiating power and his stature in Hollywood as CEO of the successful Pixar Animation Studios, Apple was given a much freer hand than were its predecessors. Apple has unveiled the Windows version of its iTunes... [17 Oct 2003]
