Los Angeles - Fandango, a provider of online and mobile movie showtimes and advance ticket sales, announced on Monday that it has acquired Disney's (NYSE: DIS) Movies.com for an undisclosed sum.

San Francisco - Advance movie ticket seller Fandango said on Wednesday that it has partnered with Microsoft's Tellme to add voice-activated movie information for mobile phones. Initially available for BlackBerry devices, with Helio Mysto phones to be added, the service uses GPS technology to target showtimes and provide directions to theaters.

Los Angeles - Fandango, a provider of advance online movie ticket sales, on Wednesday introduced a new Facebook application that lets movie studios, film distributors, production companies, theaters and others enhance their Facebook pages with showtimes and ticketing capabilities.

Los Angeles - The nation's two leading online movie ticket sellers -- Fandango and MovieTickets.com -- announced on Monday that "Spider-Man 3" set single-day ticket sales records for both of their services. Fandango, which was recently acquired by cable TV provider Comcast, said that ticket sales for the film on Friday broke both its daily and hourly sales records, when the site sold ten tickets per second over multiple hours. Meanwhile, MovieTickets.com -- a joint venture between a number of theater owners, AOL and Viacom -- said "Spider-Man 3" broke its single-day sales record, beating out last summer's "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."

Philadelphia - Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV provider, announced on Wednesday that it will acquire Fandango, a movie showtimes and ticketing site that claims 4-5 million visitors per month.