- Starwave
Infobox Defunct company
company_name = Starwave Corporation
company_
slogan = What's Your Passion?
company_type =
fate = acquired byThe Walt Disney Company , 1998
Predecessor =
successor =Walt Disney Internet Group
foundation = 1993
defunct = 1998
location = Bellevue, WA
industry = Digital content
products =
key_people =Paul Allen ,Mike Slade ,Patrick Naughton
num_employees =
parent =
subsid =Starwave was a
Seattle, Washington basedsoftware and website company, founded in 1993 byPaul Allen , co-founder ofMicrosoft . The company produced many original CD-ROM titles, including disks forClint Eastwood , Sting, [ cite web|title=Starwave Teams With Sting and A&M Records To Create Interactive CD-ROMs|work=Business Wire|date=1995-05-30|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1995_May_30/ai_16928651|accessdate=2008-06-24] andPeter Gabriel . They were the original developers ofCastle Infinity , a multiplayer game released in 1996 that still has an active community, but Starwave's most lasting mark was in the area of Web content sites. They developedESPN.com ,ABCNEWS.com , Outside Online, andMr. Showbiz.com among other groundbreaking sites, setting the standard for much of the commercial Internet explosion of the late 1990s. Starwave also developed the first site and publishing system forJim Cramer 's TheStreet.com.The company merged with Infoseek and was later sold to
The Walt Disney Company in 1998. The new entity,Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) developed the GO.com portal.In 2004, Disney re-activated the Starwave identity as
Starwave Mobile , which publishes casual games for mobile phones. [cite web
title = Newly Formed Starwave Mobile Announces Initial Content Lineup
work = Business Wire
publisher = Business Wire
date =2004-10-25
url = http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2004_Oct_25/ai_n6250348
accessdate = 2008-06-24 ]References
External links
* http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/05/starwave.html October
* http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/05/26feature.html
* http://www.starwavers.com List of Former Starwave Employees
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
