- Why Viacom bought Awesomeness for a fraction of its US$650-million valuation (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Ofcom: TV viewing in the UK continues to fall, and risks of structural industry decline are growing (Digital TV Europe)
- Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored search engine in China (The Intercept)
- Facebook is making moves to monetize WhatsApp for the first time (The Verge)
- Living up to its name, Incredibles 2 passes the US$1-billion mark at the box office (Entertainment Weekly)
- Running out of money, stock plummeting, introducing new rules for users—how much longer can MoviePass last? (Variety)
- Apple continues to take a bite out of the competition with its services revenue rising 31% (Business Insider)
- Facebook and Instagram introduce new features to cut back screen time (Recode)
- Bojack Horseman has become the first Netflix show to enter TV syndication (TubeFilter)
- Amazon is planning to give the Prime Video app a big makeover (TechCrunch)
- 73% of smart speaker owners with children let their kids use the technology (PC Mag)
- Despite the big push for more diversity, women and minorities still aren’t getting more movie roles (Variety)
- The UK NHS will start treating kids for gaming addictions at age 12 (The Telegraph)
- Congress is considering a US$95-million proposal to study tech’s long-term effect on kids (WIRED)
- After raking in US$120 million at the domestic box office, Hotel Transylvania 3 is headed to China (Variety)
- As YA fiction becomes more popular, it’s also becoming way less diverse (The Guardian)
- Amazon Prime is no longer asking users to vote on pilots; it will now rely on in-house data (Engadget)
- Amazon’s quarterly revenue may have come under expectations, but its earnings doubled (CNBC)
- Without Fortnite, console gaming revenue would have dropped 6% last year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Lenovo is giving Google’s voice assistant a visual element with a new smart display (Engadget)
- Disney is jumping on the bandwagon and banning plastic straws from its parks (CTV News)
- Viacom is in talks to buy NBCUniversal’s Awesomeness to bolster its digital catalog (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A team of UK scientists think they have found a formula for box-office success (The Guardian)
- Cord-cutting set to grow by 33 million in the US this year (Variety)
- Facebook’s user growth has hit a wall, with its smallest increase since 2011 (Recode)
- Turns out partnering with SVODs isn’t stopping pay-TV providers from losing customers (Recode)
- Netflix is launching its first European production hub—in Madrid (Variety)
- Hulu is closing its California office and moving more than half of its staff to Seattle (TechCrunch)
- Why the iPhone may never take off in markets like India (The Verge)
- Google parentco Alphabet is spending upwards of US$1 billion a year on its “Other Bets” category (The Verge)
- Facebook is heading to space with a new satellite for better internet access (WIRED)
- Long live the basement-dwelling nerd: Dungeons & Dragons is having its best year ever (CNBC)
- The voice tricks that keep YouTube audiences engaged (The Atlantic)
- How LEGO has capitalized on voice tech to drive sales and engagement (Digiday)
- Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is looking to expand into advertising and more media sectors (Variety)
- Comic books just don’t sell like they used to, so publishers are turning to streamers to keep the art form alive (New York Times)
- Disney is preparing to debut its first VR short in August (TechCrunch)
- After a decade of kids lying about their age on social media, Facebook and Instagram are being forced to get involved (CNET)
- How Reddit is reviving the old-school chat room for the youngest generation (WIRED)
- Disney is bringing back Clone Wars for a 12-episode series on its upcoming streamer (The Verge)
- WhatsApp is curbing fake news by limiting users’ ability to forward messages (Recode)
- 68% of film reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes are men—which is drastically hurting female-led features (Variety)
- How Fancy Nancy’s creator took the character from the page to the small screen (Mercury News)
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