<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Co’s studio unit said customers of Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp’s video services will get access to the collection on its cloud-based movie storage service from yesterday.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Studios like Disney, which has made blockbuster films like <em>Frozen</em> and Marvel’s <em>Guardians of the Galaxy</em>, have been attempting to steer movie fans towards digital purchases as sales of DVDs decline.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Walt Disney Studios added that it would launch the app on video streaming-device maker Roku Inc and Google Inc’s Android TV on Sept 15, coinciding with the DVD release of <em>Cinderella</em>.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The collection in Disney Movies Anywhere can be accessed through its new app for the Microsoft Xbox 360 and for Amazon’s Fire tablets, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The media company launched Disney Movies Anywhere in February 2014 with Apple Inc’s iTunes, and in November partnered with the Google Play online store and Walmart Stores Inc’s online store Vudu.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The two new additions come on the same day as its early digital release of Marvel’s <em>Avengers: Age of Ultron</em>. — <em>Reuters</em></p></div>

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<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>This article first appeared in <em>digitaledge Daily</em>, on September 9, 2015.</p></div>

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LOS ANGELES: Walt Disney Co’s studio unit said customers of Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp’s video services will get access to the collection on its cloud-based movie storage service from yesterday.

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TOKYO (Nov 18): Japan’s core machinery orders unexpectedly fell in September 2024 from the previous month, government data showed on Monday, although they are expected to grow in the current quarter of the year.

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China’s steel exports have exploded higher. History suggests it can’t last.

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Diplomatic tensions over global warming spilled over into the G20 summit negotiations in Brazil this week, with sources saying the 20 major economies reached a fragile consensus on climate finance that had eluded UN talks in Azerbaijan.

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Democratic US President Joe Biden aims to finalise a rule on a clean fuel tax credit before leaving office on Jan 20, a senior White House official said on Sunday.

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KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 18): Shares of Kossan Rubber Industries Bhd (KL:KOSSAN) rose on Monday to their highest in nearly four months, after the glovemaker unexpectedly declared a special dividend despite below-view results.

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SINGAPORE (Nov 18): Singapore’s non-oil domestic exports fell 4.6% in October this year, from the same month a year earlier, data on Monday showed, as shipments of non-electronics decreased, while electronics grew.

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President Joe Biden's administration has lifted restrictions that had blocked Ukraine from using US-provided weapons to strike deep into Russian territory, said three sources familiar with the matter, in a significant change to US policy in the Ukraine-Russia conflict.

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