Kidscreen Staff
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Kidscreened
- Mark Zuckerberg rings the opening bell marking Facebook’s Wall Street debut, let the trading frenzy begin (The New York Times)
- Netflix claims one third of its new subscribers are old customers coming back to the service (Mashable)
- New global study reveals gamers aren’t excited by motion sensor gaming or touch screen controllers (Forbes)
- Only one original member of The Wiggles remains after lineup changes for first time in 21 years (The Telegraph)
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- How the BBC’s decision to move its kids programming could impact family viewing (The Guardian)
- How indie comic book artists have influenced a slew of hit Cartoon Network series (Publishers Weekly)
- New study finds 77% of parents think tablets are beneficial to kids (Mashable)
- Lego’s traveled the world and even been to space, but this latest record-breaker is impressive (MailOnline)
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- How a startup’s new virtual world pairs the addictiveness of games with curbing childhood obesity (Mashable)
- New study finds Filipino children have highest digital know-how in Asia Pacific region (TechWireAsia)
- How Disney resorts are leveraging the growing appeal of casual and online gaming (Forbes)
- And the Battleship movie tie-in merchandising war begins (Wired)
Kidscreened
- Can Rovio repeat its Angry Birds success with its new game Amazing Alex? (Los Angeles Times)
- How a “click less” formula is creating longer user engagement on YouTube (AdAge)
- New study finds Pinterest tops Disney online as top visited family and lifestyle site for US moms (Nielsen)
- In a retro move, Hasbro plans to bring back the Furby (Toy News)
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- In just three weeks, The Avengers passes US$1 billion in box office returns (The Guardian)
- Nickelodeon Research finds two-thirds of kids watch movies at home with their parents (MediaPost)
- How the pros and cons of social media’s impact on kids needs more examination (NDTV)
- An interesting visual representation of how school kids learn and interact with and without technology (The Washington Post)
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- How new Nielsen measurement will make it easier to track the mobile, wireless and internet-based video audience (MediaPost)
- Amazon’s Kindle lands all seven Harry Potter e-books (Examiner)
- FTC delays Facebook’s closing of $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram (PC Mag)
- Who knew? Disney reveals that all of its movies exist in one super unified world (The Onion)
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- Strong sales of Skylanders toys help Activision’s first quarter sales beat forecasts (Los Angeles Times)
- Facebook jumps into the app store market with its aptly named App Center (PCWorld)
- New poll reveals 75% of current gamers won’t be opening their wallets for the upcoming Nintendo WiiU console (VentureBeat)
- How consumer rights will be defined in an increasingly digital age (GamesIndustry)
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- New data reveals the photo/video app category is the fastest growing from October 2011 to March 2012 (MediaPost)
- How Hasbro’s CEO shifts from toy executive to movie producer (Chicago Tribune)
- Could worst sales slump since 1999 bring potential takeover bids for Electronic Arts? (Gamasutra)
- The possibility of real-life Transformers walking the Earth is closer than we think (The Verge)

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