- Is China the next stop for Netflix? (Fortune)
- Ireland looks to step up its film industry following Brexit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The importance of fear in children’s entertainment (The Atlantic)
- How Roald Dahl’s widow ensured the author’s legacy would not be tarnished by bad movie adaptations (Variety)
- How Netflix is turning to Vine and YouTube stars to boost its co-viewing programming strategy (Business Insider)
- Jeffrey Katzenberg is being sued by minority investors following the Comcast-DreamWorks deal (Los Angeles Times)
- A field trip through the VR-enabled classroom of the future (Wired)
- In introducing its brand to kids, Bose wants to create a new generation of hardware builders (Fast Company)
- Playtime or showtime? Pretend play now involves preschoolers hosting their own imaginary YouTube channels (Los Angeles Times)
- Google and Viacom win appeal over Nickelodeon site tracking, but one privacy claim against Viacom remains (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How analytics could help Hollywood find the next Harry Potter (The Virginian-Pilot)
- Is this the end of a traditional console gaming cycle? (ET Tech)
- Brexit hits stock markets, Britain’s media and entertainment companies (Hollywood Reporter)
- Amazon moves further into edtech by launching free educational tools for teachers (CNET)
- The issue of gender bias in AI (National Post)
- Canadian retailers are roughly two years behind their US counterparts when it comes to e-commerce (The Toronto Star)
- Why the UK’s decision to leave the EU is a major blow to the region’s film and TV industry (The Verge)
- Here’s looking at you, Snapchat. AOL launches face-tracking app Switch (VentureBeat)
- Study finds strong exposure to Disney princess culture leads to more female-centric behavior in both girls and boys (National Post)
- We live in a world where fast-food take-out containers can double as phone chargers (Quartz)
- Netflix sees small bandwidth share decline while Amazon makes gains (Variety)
- This new SMS and Facebook bot wants to build confidence in teens (TechCrunch)
- An India-based mobile ad firm is handed a US$4-million fine for tracking kids (Fortune)
- Samsung’s re-branded VR content portal will focus on user-generated content (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Comcast’s US$3.8-billion purchase of DreamWorks Animation gets government approval (Bloomberg)
- Disney’s Cars brand drives a copyright infringement lawsuit in China (CNBC)
- Apple will start doling out US$400 million after losing its eBook price-fixing suit (CNET)
- New batch of emojis does little to shake gender imbalance (The Globe and Mail)
- Turns out, teens are interested in reading the news—and they’re readily doing so via Snapchat and Twitter (Business Insider)
- Netflix tops YouTube as the most-watched on-demand video service in the US (Digital TV Europe)
- The complicated, intracompany rivalry between Pixar and Disney Animation (Fast Company)
- How Sphero’s updated rolling Spark robot makes it easier for kids to code (The Verge)
- Go long: Twitter and Vine users can now share videos up to 140 seconds in length (CNET)
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