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What will we learn from Steve Jobs’ biography?
Steve Jobs’ long-awaited biography is scheduled to be published on Nov. 21. Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs, the book promises to be one of the most interesting reads of the decade for...
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Disney’s Robert Iger to leave CEO role in 2015
Disney chief executive Robert Iger announced today he will be stepping down from his position in 2015. The Wall Street Journal reports he will become Disney’s executive chairman in March 2012, when...
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Ugh: Zynga’s Farmville in talks for movie treatment
As annoying as it is to get Farmville requests from friends on Facebook, now there may be no way to escape the popular game: Farmville in talks to be made into a movie. Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen,...
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Outfit7 reaches 225M downloads, moves closer to jumping out of mobile
Outfit7, creators of the “Talking Friends” mobile games, announced today it has seen 225 million downloads only 5 and a half months after announcing 100 million. Talking Friends is a set of mobile...
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500% growth? $10M in new cash? Steve Jobs-trained CEO? Magnetic has it all
Single-year revenue growth of over 500 percent is going to bring any company good things. In online marketing firm Magnetic’s case, it’s brought a new series of funding totalling $10 million. Magnetic...
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Vancouver: Hollywood North’s tech scene is growing, growing, not yet grown
Hollywood North? L.A. with rain? The city that riots whenever its hockey team doesn’t win the Stanley Cup? Americans might think of Vancouver in many ways — but typically not as a tech startup mecca....
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How Star Wars tech changed Silicon Valley (interview)
When Oren Jacob was a teenager, he hung up Star Wars posters on his bedroom wall. In his early 20’s at a college dorm at Berkeley, he replaced these with a small jumping desk lamp image, Pixar‘s...
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Talking teddy bears raise $11.5M
ToyTalk has raised $11.5 million in its second round of funding. ToyTalk was founded by former Pixar CEO Oren Jacob as a “family entertainment company.” Last week, it released a video revealing its...
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Pixar lamp comes to life in New Zealand project
You know how that lamp in Pixar that makes you believe cold metal could actually be a great cuddle buddy? That’s what a team from New Zealand has created: a little loveable lamp that can both see and...
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Knack is the first game confirmed for the PlayStation 4 (and it looks like a...
Follow our PlayStation 4 coverage The PlayStation 4 is real, and we have the first confirmed game. Sony announced Knack, a third-person action game for the new system, at its PlayStation Meeting...
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Steve Jobs wasn’t afraid to tell Disney’s CEO that his movies ‘sucked’
Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs was kind of a jerk, but sometimes that led to some really humorous interactions. Case in point: Sometimes he called up Disney CEO Robert Iger to tell him his movies weren’t...
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Current Pixar employees band together to form game studio
Look out, game developers, because Pixar talent is moving into your turf. Five Pixar artists have formed Steel Wool Games, according to Edge. The new developer, which they have termed a side company,...
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Why Pixar staffers decided to start their own gaming company on the side
On Monday, new developer Steel Wool Games revealed that it is working on its first release. Something like that isn’t usually noteworthy, but this studio is a bit of a special case: Its five founders...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: EA CEO out, SimCity could have been offline,...
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, John...
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Creating a creature with 5.5M pieces of animated hair in Pixar’s Monsters...
Creating an animated feature film takes an army of artists. But Pixar’s Monsters University movie, coming out June 21, also took a bunch of technologists who had to solve difficult problems like...
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Bringing characters to life with Pixar’s animator magic (interview)
Scott Clark is one of the animation wizards at Pixar, the Disney-owned movie animation studio that is about to debut its next animated film, Monsters University. Without a supervising animator like...
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How Pixar made Monsters University, its latest technological marvel
Monsters University, the new animated film from Disney’s Pixar division that debuts on June 21, will serve as light summer entertainment for most audiences. But the light-hearted, character-driven...
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How Pixar created the ultrarealistic animated film, The Blue Umbrella...
Director Saschka Unseld gets a good laugh when people learn that his film, The Blue Umbrella, is entirely animated. The short, which debuts alongside Pixar’s feature film Monsters University this...
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Take a tour of the ‘monsterfied’ Pixar campus (photo gallery)
Monsters University has taken over Pixar headquarters in Emeryville, Calif. To get everyone into the spirit of the film, which debuts on June 21, the Disney-owned digital animation studio recast its...
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GamesBeat weekly roundup: A new social gaming King, big Xbox announcement May...
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed. This week, Microsoft...
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