Even Disney, which had not made its films available to YouTube until November, agreed to partner with the company.
Even Disney has had its share of failures like Super Mario Bros. and Prince of Persia (which cost a lot to make).
Not even Disney believes it can prosper by selling escapism alone.
But even Disney can go too far.
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If parents are lucky, they might get away for a dinner or drink on their own, but even Disney's Pleasure Island - a Vegas-like strip of nightclubs and over-21 entertainment - was shut down in 2008 and has been reinvented to have a more family-friendly focus, with shops and restaurants instead of nightclubs.
Even Walt Disney travelled to Europe in the 1950s, searching for inspiration for what would become the world-famous Disneyland, his first theme park project in California.
It probably would have done even better if Disney has been able to persuade either Downey or Depp to take on the role.
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To my mind, in the past 25 years no other company, not even Nike or Disney, has been as brilliantly and consistently creative as Apple.
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The movie has proved a huge hit for Disney even though many analysts predicted that a cartoon with a cranky old man as the lead would never live up to Pixar's previous successes.
Sweeney recalled when the company was testing the WATCH app and she saw two little children curled up together on the couch watching Disney even though there was a big TV in the room.
The business is highly competitive, even more so since Disney spent a lot of money relaunching InfoSeek as Go last month.
Separately, Jobs had just struck the biggest deal of his career, one that would bond him even more tightly to Disney.
Major international content providers, such as the BBC, ABC News, NBC News, Disney and even Nasa have started to make their programmes - usually ones with no music - available as podcasts to download.
Michael Eisner, Disney's chairman and CEO, said the agreement prepared "an even more ambitious role" for Disney on the Internet.
Moline predicts there may even be a return to Disney's homespun values.
In fact, Disney executives have even created their own queue lexicon.
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Netflix recovered and rose even higher after the Disney alliance was made public.
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Mr Eisner even sat in on part of Disney's interview with one external candidate for the job, Meg Whitman, the chief executive of eBay.
Your Disney princess of choice even gets the ability to greet you by name, having known this bit of information beforehand from hidden sensors reading the MagicBand data.
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Since Universal opened its Harry Potter exhibit earlier this year in Orlando, attendance has picked up at the Disney parks as well even as discounting has been pulled back.
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In an interview, he reveals for the first time that he has even written a letter to the Disney board, recommending a successor should some bad fate befall Eisner himself.
If Mr Eisner does wish to see off the Comcast approach, it will put even more pressure on him to ensure Disney's future profitability.
The relevant lessons aren't in the cuteness of the pooch, or the matchless song, or even the use of music (although Disney's "Oz" does use one dismally unmusical ditty).
And while every park within the resort has one or two standout attractions that cater to the older set - Disney's Hollywood Studios delights with the Tower of Terror and even the previously tame Animal Kingdom has added a mega-coaster, Expedition Everest -Disney Cruise Line seems to pick up where the parks leave a void, with entire areas dedicated to pre-teens, teenagers and adults.
In the 1960s, Disney became obsessed by robotics, even producing a robotic version of Abraham Lincoln, which could explain the meaning of representative government in a high pitched, mechanical voice.
Some growthies, like Disney, Gillette, Intel and even GE, may have less definitive growth rates, but Cisco, Microsoft, Pfizer and even IBM -- which is cheap -- are less vulnerable to an economic slowdown than yesterday's Nifties.
Even if the Heds aren't the next Disney, a decent result would be to get bought for a mighty price.
Calhoun, plus breakthrough bonus features that take viewers even deeper into the world of video games, Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" has something for every player.
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So Hampton convinced Disney President Robert Iger to let him run the company outside of Disney's traditional management structure, even going so far as to establish Baby Einstein's headquarters in a dingy office park in Glendale, Calif.
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