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Report: Disney+Pixar a done deal [VERY UPDATED!!!]
It’s Tuesday! New PowerBooks (MacBook Pros?) today!
Oh wait, wrong rumor mill. Sorry about that.
BusinessWeek reports that Disney has purchased Pixar for the tidy sum of $7 billion US. As a result of the buyout Steve Jobs would become Disney’s biggest shareholder, owning a 7% stake in the company (there seems to be a thing with the number seven here). Jobs, according to the report, would also become a Disney board member. I won’t bore you with the details; you’ve probably heard the story rehashed a million times now. The bottom line: Jobs gets richer and gains even more power in the entertainment industry. It may be safe to say that the expectations for Jobs to work his magic with Disney are extremely high.
For what it’s worth, $7 billion can buy you roughly 5.38 million 17-inch iMacs, 23.4 million 30 GB iPods, 88.6 million copies of iLife 06, or 233.4 million copies of The Incredibles on DVD, based on amazon.com’s regular (MSRP) pricing.
Nothing has been confirmed by either company at this time. Stay tuned…
UPDATE! Disney buys Pixar for $7.4 billion. So, when do we get to see Steve Jobs wear Mickey Mouse ears?
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BusinessWeek: “Disney-Pixar: It’s a Wrap”
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| Nick | comments | views |
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Actually, Jobs only made 3.5 billion. He owns just a tad over half of Pixar,
So divide your estimates by two.
So, when do we get to see Steve Jobs wear Mickey Mouse ears?
| Jan. 25, 2006 | |
| Arden | 2:39 am |
To be honest, it’s a little hard to wrap my brain around what this all means.
Is Steve Jobs going to be in charge of Disney now? Because this just gives me another reason to hate him. 
| UnnDunn | Jan. 25, 2006 | |
| 12:34 pm |
Well… what better way to turn the Mac platform into the ultimate multimedia outlet than by controlling Disney?
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| Jan. 25, 2006 | |
| Arden | 10:04 pm |
No, that’s not the bottom line. The bottom line is that Lasseter can kick some ass. He’s already canned that Toy Story 3 that Disney was working on.
| Jan. 30, 2006 | |
| 1:04 pm |
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That’s also approximately 2000 private islands, up to 70,000 assassins or 280,000 hitmen, up to 350 drag line excavators, or the Empire State Building 15 times over at its original build cost and site cost adjusted for inflation.
That’s a lot of f**king money.