DreamWorks Spins Off Animation Unit
News Building on the financial success of this year's "Shark Tale" and "Shrek 2" releases, DreamWorks last Thursday spun off the animation unit, raising $812m in a deal that saw shares soar from $28 to $38.75 by market close.
[November 1, 2004, 9:10]
Laughing From Sunday Mornings All The Way To The Bank
News Building on the financial success of this year's "Shark Tale" and "Shrek 2" releases, DreamWorks on Thursday spun off the animation unit, raising $812m in a deal that saw shares soar from $28 to $38.75 by market close.
[November 1, 2004, 11:19]
Gates Keynote: Xbox Unveiled
News Gates and Seamus Blackley, head of Microsoft's Xbox division, ran demos of several Xbox titles, which featured detailed graphics and smooth animation that looked more like a Disney movie than current video games.
[January 8, 2001, 8:39]
HP Workstations Help Reactrix Engage Customers With Interactive Advertising
White Papers More than 130 shopping malls and movie theaters in select U.S.markets are attracting consumers with the Reactrix experience, a mix of game play and 30-second commercials that "React" to a participant's movements with crisp animation and state-of...
[December 19, 2006, 23:00]
Adobe Wins Macromedia Patent Suit
News Adobe filed the suit in August 2000, alleging that the user interface of Macromedia's Flash Web animation tool infringed on Adobe's patent for "tabbed palettes", a feature that allows users of design software to rearrange the work space on the PC...
[May 3, 2002, 9:19]
AOL Ads Get Bigger, Wider, Richer
News The genre of online commercials applies to ads containing advanced sound and motion through streaming media, Macromedia's Flash animation or comparable technology. On 1 September, the Dulles, Virginia-based company, a unit of AOL Time Warner, said...
[August 22, 2002, 8:13]
Jobs Becomes Permanent Apple CEO
News The move puts Jobs in an unprecedented position: simultaneously piloting two major tech companies that he founded, Apple Computer and Pixar, his Academy Award-winning computer animation studio. According to Jobs, Apple's past quarter was its most...
[January 6, 2000, 8:15]
Macromedia Nabs Business Toolmaker
News Sunnyvale, California-based Presedia's main product, Express, is an application for delivering multimedia presentations and educational content online using Flash, Macromedia's widely installed animation player.
[January 17, 2003, 8:35]
'South Park' Comes To Shockwave.com
News Trey Parker and Matt Stone will create 39 original animation shorts, each two to five minutes in length. Shockwave.com said earlier this week that it had raised $44m (£27m) in equity funding from Silicon Valley venture-capital company Sequoia...
[December 8, 1999, 15:23]
AOL Upgrades Netscape Browser
News It also has a new Windows plug-in for Macromedia's Flash 7 animation software, faster loading of the browser and of Web pages, and unspecified improvements in standards support. AOL, a unit of Time Warner, last summer spun off Mozilla as an...
[August 18, 2004, 9:15]
Flash: Easy Target For Gaudy Graphics
News The easy-to-use animation tool made by Macromedia has slowly taken over the Internet, aided and abetted by bored designers and advertisers eager to hit consumers with bigger, more eye-catching messages.
[May 2, 2001, 15:01]
Microsoft Gets Personal With Online Ads
News It turns out that many of the searchers are looking for a popular form of Japanese animation that also goes by the term bleach". AdWords and Yahoo's Search Marketing unit. The company has outlined a whole host of things it would like to offer as...
[November 14, 2005, 12:05]
Rupert Goodwins' Week
News To describe how that works, it uses Body Animation Parameters, or BAPs. Sony, you know where to send the eval unit. at the same time? Answer: have a power cut. Quite fun being about the only person with an uninterruptable power supply when that...
[August 16, 1997, 1:00]
