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Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:50:20 GMT

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Scania Higer A80 na Europese rollover test 1 juli 2008

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:21:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Scania iger A80 is de eerste Chinese bus die deze Rollover test doorstond.

Clip Source: www.kinglong-sz.com.cn

Paw Print From Big Cat In England?

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:25:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Another piece of evidence turns up that one expert says is a tiger's paw print.

Clip Source: www.ashbournenewstelegraph.co.uk

Was this paw-print left by a Tiger?

A BIG cat expert has contacted the News Telegraph and believes there is a chance our paw-print could have been made by a Tiger.

Paul Westwood, creator of bigcatmonitors.co.uk is a staunch believer that big cats exist in the wild and has researched a number of local sightings during his years in the business.

He says the photograph of our print, taken in Shirley and sent to us by News Telegraph Reader Matt Kennedy, certainly looks like a feline print and is likely to be a Leopard or possibly even a Tiger.

He said: "I'm quite impressed with the picture and I'm edging towards the possibility that it was left by some sort of big cat - possibly a Leopard.

"It does look very similar to a iger print. You might say that sounds daft, but there was a Tiger incident in the UK a few years ago.

Paul hopes to visit the site the photo was taken in the next few days and we will keep website visitors posted on what he finds.

Tags: shirley, england, big-cat, tiger, cryptids, great-britain, mystery, creature, feline

Corporate Marital Bliss

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:20:08 GMT

clipped by: Maureen Farrell
clipper's remarks: Great article outlining how Disney and Pixar have made it work and how Pixar has maintained some degree of entrepreneurial culture within a large corporation.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Both companies had a history of acrimony, and Robert A. Iger, the new chief executive of Disney, was a mystery. Could he manage the megawatt personalities Pixar would bring into Disney’s fold? Some analysts, investors and media pundits also questioned the hefty price Disney paid for a small studio that released only one movie a year.

When Disney bought its rival, Pixar, in 2006 for $7.4 billion,

Disney’s stock has climbed 28 percent since its 52-week low on Jan. 22, in large part because of investor confidence that the company can overcome a difficult economy by leveraging Pixar’s computer-generated characters across its vast empire. In recent months, Disney’s shares have significantly outperformed those of most of its competitors.

Pixar has matured, allowing its strategic thinking to evolve inside a sprawling corporation.

The Iger difference

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:13:34 GMT

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Clip Source: money.cnn.com

The Iger difference

Bob Iger has led a renaissance at Disney. But can he withstand a bad economy and the tech revolution in the media business?

By Richard Siklos, editor-at-large

(Fortune Magazine) -- At a time of upheaval in the media business, Walt Disney has had a string of hits the likes of which it hasn't had since, well, the early tenure of former CEO Michael Eisner in the 1980s. Three years after succeeding Eisner - and confounding skeptics in the process - CEO Bob Iger talked to Fortune's Richard Siklos about buying Pixar, pulling Disney (DIS, Fortune 500) out of a creative slump with new megafranchises like "Hannah Montana" and "High School Musical," working with Steve Jobs, and wrestling with the image of a certain mouse. Edited excerpts:

Around the time you became CEO, there was a widely held view that Disney's brand had become dated. When did this issue first hit your radar?

Tags: disney, iger, branding, marketing, business

Meet Conference | Corporates Still Rule Content Space

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 16:15:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Although upstart content creators have forever changed the media distribution game, the Forbes MEET conference reveals big corporations still rule the content space with their financial resources, distribution power and marketing platforms. Disney's Bob Iger sums it up.

Clip Source: blogs.forbes.com

How should traditional media respond? Disney President and Chief Executive Bob Iger had some smart words of advice for MEET attendees:
“Quality [content] is only as good as the access that we provide people to essentially experience that quality. In today’s world, unless you take advantage of the access that the technology is providing you, quality is not only meaningless--you’re basically irrelevant. You’ve got to be front and center on these new platforms to maintain your relevance.”

Tags: meet, content, disney, ecommerce, trend agitator

Disney to ban on-screen smoking

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:30:40 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbc.ca

Walt Disney Co. has pledged to ban smoking from all family-oriented Disney brand films and says it will discourage smoking in films from its Touchstone and Miramax studios.

It will become the first major Hollywood studio to eliminate the depiction of smoking.

Disney chief executive Robert Iger made the pledge in a letter to U.S. congressman Edward Markey, who serves on a committee that has studied the effects of images of smoking on children.

Disney's commitment is "groundbreaking," Markey said after making the letter public.

"I am pleased that Disney is embracing a policy that is consistent with the long-term public health of the nation," he said.

He urged other studios to cut smoking out of their film scripts.

In May, the Motion Picture Association of America said it would consider how much smoking there is on screen when it hands out film ratings.

Tags: health

Disney pledges to cut out smoking

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:58:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Thumbs up.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Robert A Iger became chief executive of Disney in 2005

The Disney Studio has pledged to remove smoking from its family-oriented films.

The media giant's chief executive Robert A Iger said depictions of smoking in future Disney-branded films would be "non-existent".

And smoking will be "discouraged" in films aimed at adults released under its Touchstone and Miramax banners.

Mr Iger made the promise in a letter to US congressman Edward Markey. DVDs that show cigarettes will also carry anti-smoking announcements, he added.

Mr Markey described the move as "groundbreaking" and commended Mr Iger for "this important commitment".

We hope it's the beginning of a domino effect as other studios come into line

US anti-tobacco organisation The American Legacy Foundation said the announcement was "a good, solid step".

"The research is very clear that images of smoking in the media are a very large recruiter of teen smokers," the organisation's general counsel Ellen Vargya said.

Tags: disney, films, smoking

Disney To Cut Smoking From Its Movies

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:44:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Disney CEO Bob Iger's concession comes as the motion picture industry comes under pressure from Congress and state attorneys general to impose "R" ratings on any movies that depict smoking and to include anti-smoking ads on any DVD that includes smoking. - Louis Hau

Clip Source: markey.house.gov

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), Chairman of the House Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee, today released a letter he received from Robert A. Iger, President and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, laying out the company’s new commitment regarding cigarette smoking in films.

Last month, Chairman Markey held a hearing focused on the images children see on screen, during which he called upon media companies to join the anti-smoking effort and help dissuade children from starting to smoke.

Mr. Iger’s letter to Chairman Markey conveyed that Disney expects ‘that depictions of cigarette smoking in future Disney branded films will be non-existent.’ The letter also contained Disney’s pledge to place anti-smoking public service announcements (PSA) on DVDs of any forthcoming film that includes cigarette smoking and a pledge to work with theatre owners to place similar PSAs before the showing of any new Disney Company film that includes smoking.

Tags: media, film industry, movies, disney, edward markey, anti-smoking

Disney's classic- racist cartoon? Possibly coming out of Disney's Vault

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:07:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: i never knew that Zip-a-dee-doo-dah comes from a possibly contraversial flick! i had no idea-- i thought zip-a-dee was pure innocence...sounds like this is could get ugly- but i'd be curious to see it.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Is long-shelved Disney classic coming back?

ORLANDO, Florida (AP) -- Walt Disney Co.'s 1946 film "Song of the South" was historic. It was Disney's first big live-action picture and produced one of the company's most famous songs -- the Oscar-winning "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." It also provided the inspiration for the Splash Mountain rides at Disney's theme parks.

But the movie remains hidden in the Disney archives -- never released on video in the United States and criticized as racist for its depiction of Southern plantation blacks. The film's 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper of official rerelease, which is unusual for Disney, but President and CEO Bob Iger recently said the company was reconsidering.

The film's reissue would surely spark debate, but it could also sell big. Nearly 115,000 people have signed an online petition urging Disney to make the movie available, and out-of-print international copies routinely sell online for $50 to $90, some even more than $100.

Tags: disney, cartoon, movie, entertainment

Disney please release this movie!

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:24:18 GMT

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Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Disney could unlock `Song of the South'

ORLANDO, Fla. - Walt Disney Co.'s 1946 film "Song of the South" was historic. It was Disney's first big live-action picture and produced one of the company's most famous songs — the Oscar-winning "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah." It also provided the inspiration for the Splash Mountain rides at Disney's theme parks.

But the movie remains hidden in the Disney archives — never released on video in the United States and criticized as racist for its depiction of Southern plantation blacks. The film's 60th anniversary passed last year without a whisper of official rerelease, which is unusual for Disney, but President and CEO Bob Iger recently said the company was reconsidering.

Tags: disney, song of the south, zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Pirates of the Caribbean MMORPG

Thu, 11 Jan 2007 17:44:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Expect a sea battle between this and the Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG coming later this year

Clip Source: www.3pointd.com

Reuters has a story today about Disney moving further toward massively multiplayer online games and virtual worlds, an announcement made by CEO Bob Iger at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Iger says the company will make MMOs and virtual worlds “based on a broad range of our properties” into a bigger priority going forward. Disney’s Pirate of the Caribbean Online is only the first such offering in the works, apparently. “You can imagine living in Buzz and Woody’s toy universe,” Iger added. Whether this means more games only, or includes virtual worlds along the lines of MTV’s Virtual Laguna Beach remains to be seen. But this speech, along with a similar announcement from CBS chief exec Les Moonves, is a good indication that more and more media companies are seeing virtual worlds as an important part of their offerings. This is the new trend in media convergence, as far as I’m concerned. Look for much more of this ahead.

Tags: video games, gaming, rpg, mmorpg, disney

Disney site becoming more social networking friendly

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:09:29 GMT

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Clip Source: blog.clickz.com

Disney.com Re-Launch, Hyped

Next week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Disney's Bob Iger will offer details on the redesigned Disney.com in a keynote address. Disney declined to offer any sort of pre-briefing prior to the convention, but a pretty extensive outline of the new platform was reported yesterday in The Wall Street Journal.

The site is expected to showcase Disney content from other properties like movies, TV and music. It will also incorporate a social networking functionality to capitalize on the popularity of competitors like Club Penguin, Neopets and MySpace. If Disney succeeds, it could garner more time spent on the platform and become more attractive to advertising partners. One handicap noted in the WSJ story is a limitation to Disney assets for members building their profiles and other areas of personalization. The site is due to launch later in January.

Tags: disney, social networking

Disney.com to become MySpace for Kids

Wed, 03 Jan 2007 04:46:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Definitely long overdue, though they really are hitting the market knowing what works and what doesn't and should be able to execute successfully. The product placement that will underwrite the site is the bit that scares me (and I don't have kids yet, though I do worry about my nieces). Kids are interacting with brands at such a young age these days, I just hope it doesn't turn them all into shopaholics.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

The new Disney.com, which Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger plans to unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next Monday, is Disney's take on social networking for mainstream America. In it, kids can chat while watching video clips, listening to music and playing a game, all at the same time. Parents, meanwhile, can control their kids' use of the site.

Of course, a closed universe has advantages beyond parental control. Mr. Yanover says there are many more advertising opportunities on the new site, including display ads, video ads and sponsorships. Disney will also charge for subscriptions to more advanced games and also plans to offer things like special powers in a game for a one-off charge. And it will sell DVDs, merchandise, travel packages and tickets to its parks directly to the public.

Tags: disney, myspace, social networking, web, internet, advertising, kids, children

CEO of 2005

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:05:35 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsmarketwatch.com

WALT DISNEY'S
Robert Iger
Robert Iger has re-imagineered Walt Disney Co.'s corporate culture and reanimated its stock. For these reasons and more,

Iger is the winner of the MarketWatch CEO of the Year award for 2006.
• Read the full profile, along with stories on Robert Iger's fellow powerhouse finalists, and find out whom our readers selected

Tags: ceo of the year, 2005