MUMBAI: As a part of its strategy for long-term growth through applying new technologies to the creation and global distribution of high-quality family entertainment, The Walt Disney Company has acquired Club Penguin, one of...

MUMBAI: Jury president of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, film director Wong Kar Wai, has been specially commissioned to create a short movie for Philips’ next generation Ambilight television, which will be premiered at...

MUMBAI: EMI Music announced a deal with MixAlbum.com service, as featured on the BBC2 smash hit show Dragons’ Den. It is the first of a raft of new deals EMI is able to pursue...

MUMBAI: The Motion Picture Association (MPA) has welcomed the decision by the Singapore Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts minister Lee Boon Yang, not to intervene in exclusive carriage agreements between parties in...

MUMBAI: The recent “DRM-free” music tracks that were announced by Apple and Amazon.com do not herald the death of Digital Rights Management (DRM), reports In-Stat. Instead, the DRM-free model will likely be viewed as...

MUMBAI: The SIGGRAPH 2007 Computer Animation Festival and Art Gallery will feature 51 California filmmakers and artists in its programs, both part of the 34th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques being...

MUMBAI: AdME, provider of music-driven Mobile Entertainment (mdME) products, has released GuitarStar, a next-generation music-driven mobile game, on the AT&T Wireless network. Using an original “beat-matching” technology, GuitarStar is the first mobile game fully...

MUMBAI: Publicis Groupe S.A. has acquired Chinese independent interactive marketing agency Communication Central Group (CCG). With 200 employees in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shenzhen, CCG is the region’s only digital agency to offer...

MUMBAI: Reflecting an overall strategy of allying itself with brand partners in all of its businesses, Lionsgate has entered into a multi-year partnership with one of the top names in fitness – Kathy Smith....

MUMBAI: More than three billion songs have been purchased and downloaded from Apple’s iTunes Store, it was announced today. iTunes is a popular online music, TV and movie store featuring a catalog of over...