SEATTLE — Long before toys had a story and bugs got a life, Pixar Animation Studios Inc. was a software company. It started in the 1970s with a team of programmers who wanted to transform mountains of ...

Pixar turned thirty years old today, marking the animation studio's milestone ahead of their seventeenth film, premiering later this year. Now a part of Disney, Pixar was born out of Lucasfilm's ...

It may be because I write for a tech site, and therefore the Steve Jobs focus is always on Apple and NeXT, but Pixar often seems underrepresented when people talk about the Apple co-founder’s life.

Pixar may be known for its eye-popping animation and airtight storytelling these days, but in 1988 it was a struggling high-end computer manufacturer with a demo video aimed at boring government ...

Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull reveals in a new book that the now-legendary animation company was nearly sold to General Motors and Philips for its technology, but the deal fell through just before it ...

Pixar Animation Studios' collection of movie hits is impressive -- among them, "Toy Story," "Finding Nemo" and "The Incredibles." In addition to earning billions of dollars, the studio's films have ...