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Scaling Viewer‑First Premium Advertising on Disney+ | The Walt Disney Company
04 Jun 2026
Disney has expanded its suite of first‑party advanced ad experiences to Disney+, giving advertisers new ways to engage audiences. Learn more here.
Disney and Pixar’s
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This summer, Disney is bringing the heat to theaters with movies from Pixar Animation Studios, Disney Live Action, Searchlight Pictures, and 20th Century Studios.
This is the first NBA Finals under the new 11-year media rights agreement. What does it mean for ESPN and ABC to tip off this new era with the Finals, and how does it set the tone for the next decade-plus of the partnership?
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As ESPN and ABC usher in a new era of NBA coverage, the NBA Finals represent both a storied legacy and the beginning of a new chapter.
Musical
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Disney Consumer Products arrives at Licensing Expo 2026 with “Icons Unleashed,” highlighting the future of licensing through culture, collaboration, and iconic brands.
A Deeper Connection
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Pedro Pascal and Jon Favreau discuss bringing The Mandalorian and Grogu from Disney+ to the big screen for their biggest adventure yet.
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Typewriters, the office machines that preceded computers
By Kiron Kasbekar | 10 Apr 2025
You see office tables today equipped with desktop computers or laptops. But think of the 1970s, and what would you have been seeing?
Wishful thinking about cars
By Kiron Kasbekar | 05 Apr 2025
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The history of safety glass
By Kiron Kasbekar | 26 Mar 2025
You probably already knew that the world’s VIPs move around in cars with bullet-proof glass windscreen and windows. But did you know that ‘bulletproof glass’ is not really bulletproof?
German silver: used in cutlery, music, electricals - but it’s not silver
By Kiron Kasbekar | 20 Mar 2025
This material, which was first developed in China, not Germany, and is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc, has lost its sheen in home uses, but finds favor in electrical engineering.
Pioneers – the Wrights and Glenn Curtiss launched the aircraft industry
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
First Orville and Wilbur Wright flew their plane, the ‘Wright Flyer’, from near a small town called Kitty Hawk. Then Glenn Curtiss built planes with a very different system of controls, which has lasted until now.
What do aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles?
By Kiron Kasbekar | 17 Mar 2025
From chains and sprockets to direct drives—If someone asked you what aircraft have in common with bicycles and motorcycles, how would you respond?
Radar’s ancestors: From sound mirrors to modern detection technology
By Kiron Kasbekar | 11 Mar 2025
Radar has become a well-settled technology today, especially in the field of navigation.
Nokia Bell Labs: innovations in communication, computing, technology
By Omar Almeida | 08 Mar 2025
Bell Laboratories, or Bell labs, which has now become Nokia Bell Labs, is one of the most renowned research and development organizations in the history of science and technology.
Company story – Quaker Oats
By Kiron Kasbekar | 08 Mar 2024
Quaker Oats is a company whose products I remember from my childhood days. Years before a foreign exchange crisis caused the Indian government to impose curbs on consumer product imports, we used to see a host of foreign brands in the Indian market. Including Quaker Oats, which I remember eating when I was a child, and which has been available for the past two decades or more.
