http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:02:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-41938 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:34:34 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-41938 [...] the idea of virtual pets for kids, having seen how popular they were at toy shows. Disney had also just bought Club Penguin, an online role-playing game for kids, for $350 million. Acton-Smith spent months [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-41421 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:59:14 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-41421 [...] inglés conozco algunos, uno de los más conocidos es Club Penguin, que fue comprado por Disney hace un par de meses por 700 millones de dólares, con 12 millones de usuarios con edades [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-38345 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:18:29 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-38345 [...] since everything must come to an end, eventually our enthusiasm began to dwindle. Disney bought the game a year later for $700 million, and we all spent a good while whining about it like it meant the end [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-33466 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:16:37 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-33466 [...] costs RMB 10 ($1.5). Taomee is similar to Club Penguin in the US, which Disney purchased for about $700 million in 2007. Our iChinaStock team (my employer) created a presentation that looks at Taomee’s biz [...]

]]> http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-31537 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 04:17:06 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/2007/08/01/disney-buys-club-penguin-in-700-million-deal/#comment-31537 [...] Disney purchased ClubPenguin.com in August of 2007 for $700 million, $350 million cash and potentially another $350 million based on performance goals. At the time of purchase ClubPenguin.com had more than 12 million members with roughly 700,000 of them paying $57.95 per year. Do the math, that is over $40 million per year in revenue. [...]

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