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Robert Iger to step down as Walt Disney chief executive officer today

Iger will continue in the role of chairman through the end of his contract on Dec. 31, 2021, Disney said

Disney's streaming leap hooks 26.5 mn subscribers, earnings beat forecasts

The results showed Disney made a strong entrance into the streaming video wars dominated by Netflix Inc

K Madhavan is Star-Disney India head, Uday Shankar to oversee Hotstar

Both Gupta and Mohan have worked on the Hotstar business while at Star

Disney plans to take Hotstar to global markets; targets 40 mn subscribers

Hotstar splurged over Rs 4,000 cr on content in India in 2017, which also includes the cost of digital rights for cricket

Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger resigns as fight with Apple for TV streaming looms

Iger said it was "an extraordinary privilege" to have served on Apple's board for eight years

Walt Disney plans aggressive subscription revenue push for Hotstar

Targets 50% of live-streaming platform's revenues from subscriptions in the next three to four years

Disney aims to stoke Star Wars fever with Starcruiser, plans new shows

The entertainment giant unveiled plans for the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser, a multiday experience at Walt Disney World that will let guests feel like they're staying inside a spaceship

When the CEO is the corporate brand

India has had its fair share of celebrity CEOs over the past few decades. From JRD Tata to Ratan Tata. GD Birla to Kumar Mangalam Birla. Dhirubhai Ambani to Mukesh Ambani

Spider-Man's future up in the air as Sony-Disney spat continues

Spider-Man, played by Tom Holland, also was featured in MCU films such as this year's 'Avengers: Endgame,' the highest-grossing film of all time

Star Wars, Marvel & ESPN: How Disney plans to take on Netflix in streaming

Disney is matching Netflix's standard plan and marketing the service $3 below its rival's premium version, which lets subscribers and their family members watch on as many as four devices at once

Walmart to offer free streaming video on Flipkart Plus, challenge Amazon

Its Flipkart unit plans to unveil the service in coming months

Walt Disney kicks off Fox merger in India with movie studio division

The coming together of Star and Disney's various units, will see the emergence of a powerful media in the country

Walt Disney appoints Uday Shankar as president of Asia Pacific unit

Diego Lerner, who currently serves as president, Walt Disney Latin America, will maintain oversight of that region

Disney's new boss for consumer products commercialization, Asia Pacific

The Walt Disney Company has announced Mahesh Samat will be its executive vice president of consumer products commercialization for the Asia Pacific region.

Beauty and the Backlash: Walt Disney's modern princess problem

The executives had spent years cultivating Ariel, Elsa and Snow White as highly profitable models of femininity

Mickey Mouse turns 90, and the Disney marketing machine celebrates

The Walt Disney Company will celebrate Mickey Mouse's birthday with a prime-time ABC special on Sunday

Disney's China puzzle unsolved as another 'Star Wars' film flops

China, on track to overtake the US in movie ticket sales by 2020, is an important market for Hollywood films

Walt Disney gives CEO Bob Iger $36.3 mn pay before big 2018 package

Iger, 66, received a $15.2 million cash bonus tied to results including segment operating income and return on invested capital

Disney boosts stake in Paris theme park, offers to buy rest

Disney said it will support Euro Disney's recapitalisation of as much as 1.5 billion euros

Disney faces PR crisis, risk of legal action after alligator attack

An alligator had snatched and killed a toddler at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida