Kidscreen Staff
Kidscreened
- Angry Birds film lands into Sony’s hands, readies for a July 2016 launch (Variety)
- Marketers, be good to your fathers (The Toronto Star)
- How conflict over merchandising rights quashed Star Trek director’s ambitious plans (The Wrap)
- Are the app floodgates slowly opening for Google Glass? (The New York Times)
Kidscreened
- Playing with fire: Hasbro issues lawsuit over Dungeons and Dragons brand (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Abercrombie & Fitch’s ‘cool kids’ marketing blunder brings up larger questions about brand management (The Guardian)
- Mobile marketing picks up the pace in the UK (eMarketer)
- New study reveals texting while driving is now more fatal for teens than drunk driving (Time)
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- New iPhone accessory lets people send smells to one another. Ten-year-old boys to rejoice? (Wired)
- After all these years of rebellion, MTV is embracing parents (Time)
- New system Kidaptive tracks a child’s educational progress on the iPad (TechCrunch)
- Inside Netflix’s strategy to lure fans using Arrested Development – and frozen bananas (Forbes)
Kidscreened
- Why aren’t YouTube’s biggest stars part of its new paid-subscription service? (The Wrap)
- How the pervasiveness of 3D printing is changing business (The Wall Street Journal)
- Inspiration abounds in Fast Company’s roundup of the 100 most creative people in business (Fast Company)
- Why so many advertisers are missing the millennial mark (Advertising Age)
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- In the latest distribution deal, select Disney movies now available on Netflix in the UK and Ireland (Engadget)
- Behind Facebook, there are a few contenders for the title of world’s second-largest social network (eMarketer)
- Smartphones and tablets now hugging kids back (SpringWise)
- Lost in translation? Disney doll based on Brave‘s Princess Merida is received with criticism (The Guardian)
- More retailers pledge for improved factory safety in Bangladesh (The New York Times)
Kidscreened
- Disney shares big plans for Big Hero 6, its first animated film inspired by a Marvel comic (Los Angeles Times)
- When Hollywood stars align with Kickstarter (Variety)
- The facts of young life: Time magazine uses data to explore the narcissism of the millennial generation (Time)
- Can you cozy up in front of a tablet? (Forbes)
Kidscreened
- Rumor has it Microsoft will buy Nook Media for US$1 billion (TechCrunch)
- As movie-going faces a transformation in the US and Europe, media companies have their eyes on these 13 emerging markets (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Anthropology 101: Have Americans botched the whole parenting thing? (The Huffington Post)
- After a successful Kickstarter run, Android-based game console Ouya receives more backing (All Things D)
Kidscreened
- Growth within its parks division helps drive profits up for Disney (The Wall Street Journal)
- Move over Tamagotchi: Upstart developers looking to combine cat love, virtual pets and Foursquare (All Things D)
- After a slower start to the race, Canadian media companies want to give Netflix a run for its money (The Globe and Mail)
- “Bill shock” still going strong in the UK, where kids add an estimated US$47 million to monthly app bills (Wired)
Kidscreened
- Do screenplays and statistics mix? The secret to a hit Hollywood script may be in the numbers (The New York Times)
- Why Zynga is betting the Farmville (Reuters)
- May the force be with EA: Disney bestows upon Electronic Arts the exclusive Star Wars gaming rights, and a whole lot of pressure from fans (Mashable)
- Meanwhile, Nintendo looks to smartphone apps to save the Wii U (TechSpot)
Kidscreened
- Android pocket Minecraft app hits 10 million in sales (MCV)
- Iron Man 3 soars to US$175-million weekend at US box office (The Wrap)
- Google vs. Netflix: Round 1. YouTube launching paid sub model (Mashable)
- Channeling the force for realz – mind-controlled Neurogaming set to take off? (All Things D)
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MIPCOM 2012 - Closing MIP Junior party at the Martinez