It looks like Disney will get the X-Men, while Comcast shifts its focus to the UK. Comcast on Thursday confirmed it’ll no longer pursue 21st Century Fox, focusing instead on its bid for UK broadcaster Sky. “I’d like to congratulate Bob Iger and the team at Disney and commend the Murdoch family and Fox for …
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Count on Disney to do the impossible: Make waiting in line more fun. The new Play Disney Parks app takes the least magical part of a theme park — the dreaded long lines — and jazzes them up with themed games that can only be played while standing in line for rides. At times, your phone can even become a …
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Bad news, cord cutters: The cheapest way to watch SportsCenter just got 25 percent more expensive. For three and a half years Sling TV has let you watch 20-odd live TV channels including ESPN, AMC, TNT, CNN and Disney, without subscribing to cable, for $20 a month. It now costs $5 more. The new price for people who subscribe to …
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It’s hard enough for a parent to keep track of what their kids do on their phones in the house, but it gets even harder when they leave or use a different device. On Monday, T-Mobile announced its FamilyMode service. FamilyMode works in two ways: It gives parents control over what their kids do online with cellular data in or out of …
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Could we see a bidding war for 21st Century Fox? Comcast, the nation’s largest cable television provider, on Wednesday offered $65 billion in cash to buy 21st Century Fox’s film and TV studios, a bid that comes on top of an existing $52.4 billion, all-stock offer by Disney. Fox is home to marquee franchises like X-Men, Deadpool, Kingsmen, and Planet …
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I’m loaded up with a rifle, headset and backpack. In a crumbling mansion, zombies are everywhere, jumping on me from behind, dropping from the ceiling. Infected rats scramble over the floor. I last as long as I can, until I go gray. My partner next to me revives me with his hand on my shoulder. We have 20 minutes to …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. iPhones and iPads will soon be able to make a 3D emoji of your own face that moves when you do. Apple calls it a “Memoji,” and it’s an offshoot of Animoji, the animated emoji that live inside iMessage in Apple’s iOS 12 …
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James Murdoch has some advice for non-media companies looking to enter the space: be tolerant of failure and have patience. That goes for companies “dabbling” in TV content production. Namely, Apple. “Going piece by piece, one by one, show by show, it’s going to take a long time to really move the dial and have something,” Murdoch said in reference …
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Wall Street is a topsy-turvy world, and now Netflix is the media king on top of it. Thursday, Netflix’s market capitalization — finance-speak for the total value of its stock — crested higher than the market cap for Disney, previously the most valuable media company in the world. Netflix is worth about $153.8 billion compared with Disney‘s $152 billion, as of recent trading. Netflix surpassed …
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Rich Hanna stands amid a seemingly unending series of long gray metal shelves loaded with a random assortment of items, including trash barrels, stacks of Kibbles ‘n Bits dog food, a stuffed-animal chipmunk sealed in a plastic bag, an LED-glowing underwater stool for a pool and a 35-pound tube of Safe Paw Ice Melter. That’s just the start. “You wanna …
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