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Mickey Mouse celebrates his 81st Birthday

Children’s favorite Mickey Mouse is celebrating his birthday today.
Mickey has reached the ripe old age of 81.
Although he had appeared in two separate animated shorts already, November 18, 1928 is widely recognized as Mickey Mouse’s birthday because it was the day Steamboat Willie was released, (Steamboat Willie being the first Mickey Mouse Cartoon with [...]

Baby Einstein Refund Program Expanded by Disney

The Walt Disney Co. announced that it will expand its Baby Einstein refund program by offering cash refunds on any DVDs bought from June 5, 2004, to September 4, 2009.
The company has been under scrutiny concerning the educational aspect of the Baby Einstein products.  Customers are given the option of exchanging DVDs for a Baby [...]

Baby Einstein DVD customers are offered refund by Disney

Disney is giving customers who purchased Baby Einstein DVDs their money back, in a victory claimed for parents by the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, “who mistakenly thought baby videos were educational”.
To all appeareances this seems to be an admission by Disney that they did not increase infant intellect.
A full refund of $15.99 is [...]

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Dishes On Pregnancy The Third Time Around

The View co-host is getting ready for the arrival of her third child with her husband Tim Hasselbeck.
No one was more surpised about Elisabeth’s pregnancy than her and her husband. Elisabeth did not find out that she was pregnant until she was already two months into the pregnancy and then realized why she was tired all [...]

Mothercare pre-tax profits increase tenfold, back from the brink

Mothercare was once so cash strapped that till money had to be used to pay the bills.
Former Disney executive Ben Gordon joins and Mothercare becomes a rare UK retail success story.
Earlier this week Mothercare announced that full-year pre-tax profits had increased tenfold to £42.2m from £4.5m the previous year. Sales rose by 6.9pc to £723.6m [...]

“Babytalk” magazine cover contest, (USA)

Entries for the Babytalk magazine and “Good Morning America” 2009 cover contest are being accepted.
This summer, eight semi-finalists will win an all-expenses-paid trip to New York City for a photo shoot. Then Babytalk will pick three finalists, and ask readers and Good Morning America viewers to vote online for their favorites.
The winner will grace the [...]