At least 23 former IT workers of Disney have filed formal complaints with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in regards to their jobs being replaced overseas. By filing these complaints, the ex-Disney workers […]
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Disney And Intel Among Staggering Number Of Companies Outsourcing Tech Jobs
Despite the fact that technology companies regularly complain about the shortage of American tech workers, these same companies continue to layoff workers. Many of these companies have replaced American workers with foreigners from the H-1B […]
Advance Tickets For Star Wars Sequel To Go On Sale During Monday Night Football
Unless you live under a rock, you are probably aware that the Star Wars sequel is due to hit theaters later this year. In fact, the movie’s producers are pulling out all of the stops […]
Hollywood Content For Virtual Reality Platforms Could Total $5.4 Billion
Virtual reality companies have experienced challenges in finding quality content in the past, but filmmakers might ready to do something about that. Most companies that made early use of the 360-degree experience which is offered […]
Company To Create Prosthetic Limbs Featuring Disney Characters
The 3D printing company Open Bionics has received permission from Walt Disney to display popular Disney copyrighted characters on their products. Open Bionics will use this permission to feature designs from Disney on their low-cost […]
Disney Forces Store Owner To Give Up Star Wars Domain Names
The Walt Disney Company is flexing its muscles, forcing an English fancy dress store to surrender its Star Wars website addresses. The Berkshire, UK based Jokers’ Masquerade store, which has owned the domain names for […]
Entertainment Giant Disney Pressures City To Extend Tax Free Status
While the Anaheim City Council charges many small entertainment providers an admission tax, the owners of the city’s “happiest place on Earth”, which provides the area with 28,000 jobs, have asked for a 30 year […]
Anger Grows Over Disney Use Of Foreign Workers
Near the end of last October, IT employees at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts were called, one-by-one, into conference rooms to be told of their layoffs. At each meeting an executive read from a script […]
Why ESPN Wants To Keep Your Cable Bill High
ESPN doesn’t like the idea of Americans getting cheap cable packages. It really doesn’t like the idea of these packages no including its premium sports channel. So the sports network has sued Verizon for alleged […]