IQ News: That's A Wrap: Disney Completes Starwave Purchase

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Following a year-long trial marriage of sorts, the Walt Disney Co. announced its acquisition of Bellevue, Wash.-based Starwave last Thursday. Starwave was fully acquired by Disney and will be subsumed under the Buena Vista Internet Group, parent company of Disney Online, ABCnews Internet Ventures, ESPN Internet Ventures, and ABC.com. ABCnews.com and ESPN SportsZone were joint ventures with Starwave. What had been Starwave’s Bellevue headquarters now becomes technology headquarters for BIG. Patrick Naughton, formerly the president of Starwave, is now chief technology officer of BIG, reporting to Jake Winebaum, chairman of BIG.


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