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Last updated: 2008 May 13.

2007 January Disney and Sony Pictures Entertainment team up to distribute Disney films in Russia. [1144.42] January 28 The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A scene in a prison cell is similar to the one in Disney's Aladdin, where an old man helps a younger man escape out of a loose brick in the wall. [1086] (month unknown) The Walt Disney Company renames Buena Vista Games to Disney Interactive Studios. [1143.22] February 11 The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. The spaghetti kissing scene from Lady and the Tramp is mocked, with a girl kissing a dog looking like Tramp. [1087] February 25 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards an Oscar (Achievement in Visual Effects) to John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson, and Allen Hall for the film Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. [890] March 4 The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. A child wears a broken Mickey Mouse Club hat. [1088] March 27 Disney Interactive Studios releases the Meet the Robinsons video game for the PlayStation 2 in the USA. [1157.86] (month unknown) Buffalo Technology releases three Disney-themed USB flash drives in Japan: Steamboat Willie, Stitch, and Pooh. Each has 512 MB capacity. Limit of 5000 each. [1150.6] May 14 Business Week magazine publishes an article listing the World's 25 Most Innovative Companies. Number 8 is the Walt Disney Company. [1151.55] May The ice show Disney on Ice performs in Russia for the first time. [1144.42] May 18 Ten wireless hot spots are opened at Disneyland and Walt Disney World, on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction. Users with a Nintendo DS and the game Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End can download extra content at these hot spots not available anywhere else. [1103] May 19 Disneyland hosts the world premiere of the film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. All attendees are given a limited-edition "At World's End" Nintendo DS portable game player and Nintendo DS game. [1103] May 20 The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the USA. One of the ingredients of a stink bomb is "sweat from a walkaround Goofy suit". [1135] May 21 Business Week magazine releases results of a survey by Universum Communnications of 40,000 students on the Most Desirable Undergraduate Employer. Number two on the list is the Walt Disney Company. [1152.14] May 24 The film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End opens in Moscow, Russia. [1144.42] May 25 The Pirates Lair area opens in Frontierland at Disneyland. The area was formerly Tom Sawyer's Island. [1103] June 29 Disney releases the Pixar animated film Ratatouille to theaters in North America. (Gross theater receipts: US$206 million.) [1172.16] [1173.12] [1177.88] August 6 BusinessWeek magazine publishes the Interbrand ranking of the 100 Best Global Brands. Number 9 is Disney. [1153.56] August The Walt Disney Company acquires online Internet site Club Penguin. [1176.73] August 16 The United States Postage Service issues four 41-cent postage stamps entitles Art of Disney: Magic, depicting Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Peter Pan and Tinker Bell, Dumbo and Timothy Mouse, Aladdin and Genie. [1166.65] [1174.26] September 24 Business Week magazines publishes an article on The Best Places to Launch a Career. At number 7 is the Walt Disney Company. [1154.51] September 27 The Walt Disney Company announces it will cease operating its mobile phone service in the USA at the end of the year. [1103]