- Grab the popcorn: Amazon could be acquiring a chain of movie theaters (Tech Crunch)
- Hasbro and DC Comics have settled their battle of the Bumblebees (Variety)
- Microsoft’s AI bot Zo is bringing typical teenage sass to podcasts (Fast Company)
- Forget the science fair, Fortnite could land university scholarships for students (CNBC)
- Despite the decades-long fight to protect children’s data, COPPA can’t keep up (Select All)
- The different models Netflix is using to buy content (CNBC)
- Disney says the key to getting more butts in Broadway seats is actually social media (Fast Company)
- Study: Children are more likely than adults to give in to robots’ demands (Science Mag)
- The British government is leaning into apps to up its child literacy rates (WIRED)
- Tencent rakes in US$6 billion in profit, but games slowdown hurts its revenue (Variety)
- How the creator of We Bare Bears keeps innovating his storytelling (Los Angeles Times)
- Why YouTube vloggers are this generation’s Oprah Winfrey (Financial Times)
- HQ trivia is trying to reach its previous viral heights by launching on Apple TV (TechCrunch)
- We’ve come full circle: How SVODs are starting to look a lot like traditional cable TV (The Verge)
- Messenger Kids is removing some privacy features and letting kids initiate their own friend requests (TechCrunch)
- India’s Ministry of Information & Broadcasting says it has no intentions of implementing regulations on kids TV (Advanced Television)
- YouTube is paying its own stars thousands of dollars to promote new features (TubeFilter)
- Why is it so difficult to raise a gender-neutral kid? (Vogue)
- This back-to-school season, brands are marketing to kids directly on their phones (Washington Post)
- Hulu has been losing close to US$1.5 billion a year; Can Disney turn that around? (CNBC)
- All structure and no play? New study finds even with lots of planned activities, kids still fit in lots of free play (Globe and Mail)
- Despite all of the kid-specific content, Alexa is still having a hard time understanding children (Quartz)
- Will Nickelodeon’s strategy to double down on reboots pay off? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube is about to overtake Facebook as number-two in US website usage (TubeFilter)
- LOL or LMAO? How people laugh online around the world (Digg)
- Fortnite is finally available on Android, but it bypassing the Google Play store could be a problem (The Guardian)
- The long-awaited Magic Leap AR headset is finally out (CNET)
- Disney’s strategy to beat Netflix is quality over quantity—but will it work? (Fast Company)
- What the FCC loosening children’s TV guidelines for US broadcasters would mean (Los Angeles Times)
- How Sesame Street is teaching kids empathy (TV Guide)
- The American Heart Association says too much screen time can be bad for kids’ hearts (CNN)
- Why copying Snapchat’s Story feature was the best move Instagram ever made (Recode)
- Meanwhile, Snap admitted its recent redesign cost it millions of users (The Verge)
- How British schools are using video games to teach kids traditional lessons (The Guardian)
- Even with all of its issues, MoviePass has transformed modern ticket buying (The Atlantic)
- The “NewTV” short-form streaming venture has brought in US$1 billion in investment from Disney, Viacom and Alibaba (Variety)
- What the head of marketing for Disney’s upcoming streamer can reveal about the service (New York Times)
- Apparently no one is buying anything from Amazon Alexa… so what’s the point again? (TechCrunch)
- Supergirl may be joining DC’s big-screen universe, with a film reportedly in the works (Polygon)
- Snapchat remains popular with kids, but has the techco stagnated? (Recode)
- Why streaming services are doubling down on kids content while broadcasters back off (Variety)
- How Toys “R” Us was planning on rebranding if things had gone differently (Fast Company)
- Amazon’s chat fiction app, Rapids, is now free (TechCrunch)
- Not only is Disney making a live-action Lady and the Tramp, it’s gender swapping the characters (Marie Claire)
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