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- Lego majorly stretches its marketing wings in Times Square (Mashable)
- Meanwhile, Lego and Sony want to build a new era of video game-integrated toys (PC World)
- Broadcasters may have a new love for Twitter thanks to Amplify, which sends ads to viewers who are talking about specific programming (The New York Times)
- Why are CEOs supposedly such lousy managers?
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- How Disney and Threadless are making magic together (Wired)
- Pink problems: A number of parents are going to new lengths to shield girls from gender stereotypes in toys (The Telegraph)
- Nielsen looks to smarten up its media tracking methods with the help of Jeopardy-winning Watson (Advertising Age)
- In the wake of the Xbox One announcement, what options are on the table for Sony and Nintendo? (CNET)
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- Hollywood has mixed visions for Google Glass (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teens are sharing more on social networking sites than ever before, but they’re also being more smart about it (Pew Internet)
- Chinese smartphone users are more inclined to make in-app purchases than those in the US (eMarketer)
- Inside Barbie’s lavish Florida Dreamhouse (The Washington Post)
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- Reasons Cannes may be a in a sales slump (Variety)
- Can a four-year-old discriminate against overweight people? A UK study believes so (The Atlantic)
- One company is literally offering kids the building blocks to technology (Mashable)
- The European e-learning industry may start to take on US characteristics (TechCrunch)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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