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The Walt Disney Company closes a deal to acquire NBCUniversal's stake in the streaming service Hulu for $439 million, completing its acquisition of Hulu.
2025-06-10

Elon Musk announces that he has selected NBCUniversal executive Linda Yaccarino as the new CEO for X Corp., the owner of Twitter.
2023-05-12

Comcast's NBCUniversal acquires a minority stake in Amblin Partners, strengthening the relationship between Universal Pictures and Amblin, and reuniting a minority percentage of the live-action DreamWorks Pictures label with its former DreamWorks Animation division, which NBCUniversal acquired the year prior in 2016.
2017-02-15

Bloomberg News reports Verizon Communications plans a bid for Yahoo Inc.'s Web business, including Yahoo Japan Corp., next week. Google, Time Inc., and private equity funds Bain and TPG are considering bidding for Yahoo's core business. AT&T Inc., Comcast, and Microsoft Corp. reportedly aren't interested.
2016-04-7

Bloomberg News reports that Comcast will walk away from its $45 billion takeover for Time Warner Cable.
2015-04-23

Pacific Data Images shuts down as part of DreamWorks Animation's restructuring plans following the box-office underperformance of 2014's "Mr. Peabody & Sherman" and "Penguins of Madagascar", cutting off 500 jobs.
2015-01-22

Comcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable in a US$44 billion buyout.
2014-02-13

NBCUniversal buys full control of the US news website MSNBC.com and rebrands it as NBCNews.com.
2012-07-16

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Justice Department approve a $28 billion merger of Comcast and NBC Universal with critics complaining of even greater media consolidation in the U.S. and how this merger removes competitive forces and hurts consumers.
2011-01-18

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rules that the FCC cannot enforce net neutrality and that Comcast can limit its customers' access to BitTorrent.
2010-04-6