Sources: CNN
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
American movie theater chain AMC Theatres states it will no longer host movies produced by Universal Studios, in response to "The Wall Street Journal" reporting that NBCUniversal plans to release its movies simultaneously in cinemas and streaming moving forward. 2020-04-28
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
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