Disney+ service registers 8M paid subscribers in India in 1 week after rollout, crosses 50M paid subscribers globally

In a statement, Walt Disney Co said, its streaming service Disney+ has had a massive fan following and has registered 50 million paid consumers, with 8 million alone coming from India where the video streaming service was rolled out just a week back. As of this last quarter’s report, Netflix Inc reported a subscriber base…

Walt Disney Co to create live sports, original programming and news for Twitter

Video content on Twitter has doubled in the last 1 year. In a move designed to attract online viewerships, and gain advertising revenues, Walt Disney Co stated it will create news, live sports and entertainment programming specifically for Twitter Inc’s social network. Disney’s peers, including MSNBC, NBC, and Viacom Inc’s Comedy Central, BET and MTV…