- You can cross Sheryl Sandberg’s name off Disney’s list of prospective CEOs (Bloomberg)
- Investing in early education for disadvantaged kids isn’t just a social duty–it’s an economically sound one (The New York Times)
- Global smartphone shipments are slowing down (MediaPost)
- Hollywood won’t fund female-led sci-fi films, says Warcraft director (Re/code)
- After getting the cold shoulder at the box office recently, Hollywood’s love affair with sequels may soon be over (The Atlantic)
- The author’s dilemma: Why J.K. Rowling can’t let Harry Potter go (The New York Times)
- Why, when it comes to kids and screens, parents should focus less on restriction and more on connection (The Washington Post)
- San Francisco startup Mnectar shows there’s viability in the playable advertising market (VentureBeat)
- Kids content is a key piece to Amazon Japan’s original programming drive (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A Shakespearean turn: displaced Viacom directors vow to fight Sumner Redstone (The Wall Street Journal)
- We’re not in Arkansas anymore: Walmart’s retail strategy in China is a world away from the US (The New York Times)
- Harry Potter fans finally meet the Cursed Child cast (Time)
- Study finds books may be the secret to kids’ lifelong monetary success (Parent Herald)
- Why teens just can’t get their heads into the eReader game (The Guardian)
- Turns out, designers can actually learn a lot from video games of the ’90s (TechCrunch)
- On effective marketing in the era of Snapchat (Fast Company)
- Lawsuits in the making? Voice-activated virtual assistants could violate US child privacy laws (The Guardian)
- Verizon: The digital content industry’s next big player? (Fast Company)
- What a leaked deck from Snapchat─which just raised US$1.8 billion─says about the company’s growth trajectory (TechCrunch)
- Click-to-buy buttons haven’t exactly been an instant success for Pinterest and Instagram (Digiday)
- One major Canadian retailer wants to make in-store shopping more satisfying than the click of a mouse (National Post)
- Google increases its lead on Disney as the biggest media owner in the world (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The future of VR may be in the hands of great storytellers (Re/code)
- Inherently, boys and girls play differently─so where do toymakers factor into the equation? (The Atlantic)
- A look inside Sesame Workshop’s three-month-old venture-capital arm (The New Yorker)
- Play nicely: Temperamental media mogul Simon Cowell sets his sights on the kids space (Business Standard)
- Where is Apple’s place in the AI war that’s upon us? (The Verge)
- In an innovative marketing move, this candy bar will set its sale price based on how hungry the internet gets (AdWeek)
- Far from disappearing: Snapchat to get a US$20-billion valuation (TechCrunch)
- Sumner Redstone takes Viacom’s direction out of CEO Philippe Daumon’s hands (Fortune)
- Are Lego toys becoming more violent? One study says yes (Mashable)
- Nintendo directs more copyright shade at YouTubers’ Mario-based Minecraft videos (Games Industry)
- In the US, eighth-grade girls have outperformed boys on a new national engineering test─and why this matters STEM-wise (Vox)
- Three-dimensional animated avatars invade the messaging app world in Rawr (VentureBeat)
- Kids learn through movement, so why are early-childhood classrooms stuck on desktop-heavy teaching styles? (The Atlantic)
- Study finds kids are swapping portable consoles for smartphones at around age 10 (Ubergizmo)
- Industry insight: What it really takes to get a show made in this era of Peak TV (Vulture)
- Overseas, Amazon and Netflix content could be getting a lot more European (Fortune)
- Charting the rising price of Disney World tickets, which have surged 392% since 1971 (AOL)
- The US entertainment industry will spend US$3.29 billion on digital ads this year (eMarketer)
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