1. On June 8, 2018, The Walt Disney Company announced that Lasseter would be leaving the company by the end of the year, but would take on a consulting role until then.
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3. In September 2016, The Walt Disney Company was considering placing a bid for American online news and social networking service Twitter, But they dropped out partly due to concerns over abuse and harassment on the service.
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4. On March 24, 2014, The Walt Disney Company acquired Maker Studios, an active multi-channel network on YouTube, for $500 million.
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6. In March, ImageMovers Digital, which The Walt Disney Company had established as a joint venture studio with Robert Zemeckis in 2007, was shut down.
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7. In February 2006, The Walt Disney Company acquired the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit from NBC Universal as part of an exchange of minor assets.
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9. On May 15, 2003, The Walt Disney Company sold their stake in the Anaheim Angels baseball team to Arte Moreno.
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10. On November 30, 2003, The Walt Disney Company resigned from his positions as the company's vice chairman and chairman of Walt Disney Feature Animation, accusing Eisner of micromanagement, failures with the ABC television network, timidity in the theme park business, turning The Walt Disney Company into a "rapacious, soul-less" company, and refusing to establish a clear succession plan, as well as a string of box office film flops starting in the year 2000.
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15. In 1989, The Walt Disney Company signed an agreement-in-principle to acquire The Jim Henson Company from its founder, Muppet creator Jim Henson.
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16. In 1979, The Walt Disney Company entered a joint venture with Paramount Pictures on the production of the 1980 film adaptation of Popeye and Dragonslayer; the first time Disney collaborated with another studio.
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