- The future may not be bright for young adult dystopian movies (Los Angeles Times)
- With US$800 million in ad spend up for grabs, the 2016 upfront saw kids TV with more clout (Variety)
- Why a smaller and cheaper iPhone will help Apple appease the masses (Re/code)
- Minecraft and Oculus are a perfect pair (alistdaily)
- Netflix and Amazon want world domination, but they’re going to have to think local first (Bloomberg)
- Popcorn politics: US theater chains are banning kids under six from seeing R-rated movies (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nintendo’s Miitomo succeeds as a social network, but the jury’s still out on the app’s micro-transaction model (Financial Post)
- New York museum-goers can now take a trip inside the creative mind of children’s author Mo Willems (The New York Times)
- Now more affordable, kid-friendly 3D printers are about to go mainstream (The Wall Street Journal)
- A collective anxiety blankets China amid economic uncertainty (The New Yorker)
- Hugely popular mobile game Crossy Road is stopping traffic with a Disney collaboration (CNET)
- Instagram will start to look a lot more like parentco Facebook (Fast Company)
- Mainland China is going wild for Zootopia, which is poised to break records there (Los Angeles Times)
- With US$5.6 million in funding, Lego sets out to change the way young kids learn (The Guardian)
- Tiger Beat magazine is keeping up with a new cohort of celeb-obsessed teenyboppers (AdWeek)
- Rules of the game: Study shows how parents most effectively govern kids’ tech usage (CBC)
- Sociologists uncover pro-working-class messages among Disney’s biggest films (The Guardian)
- How do you go from internet meme to toy-selling machine? A Pusheen case study (NDTV)
- The most-followed Instagram user is no longer Taylor Swift – it’s her best friend (Mashable)
- Toys”R”Us Canada picks its newest chief play officer (CBC)
- Reports of US high school hazings are becoming more widespread (The New York Times)
- Star Wars and Jennifer Lawrence get the seal of approval at the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards (Business Standard)
- Minecraft to get a dose of artificial intelligence (TechCrunch)
- In the case of Netflix versus geo-unblocking companies, customers may be the ones truly losing out (CBC)
- The Song Wig music-sharing wearable from Japan has to be seen to be believed (Creativity)
- Netflix’s binge-friendly approach is shaping linear TV content development (Business Insider)
- As newfound pals, First Lady Michelle Obama and Canada’s Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau make girls’ education a top priority (The Globe and Mail)
- SVOD viewership nearly doubled in the UK last year (MediaWeek)
- The world’s best Go player has been beaten by a robot – twice. Why does it matter? (Vox)
- Study links video games to improved mental health among kids (Business Standard)
- Role reversals: When adults exhibit childlike behavior, it actually forces kids to become more mature (The Atlantic)
- Growth is in store for YouTube Gaming (TechCrunch)
- Facebook’s on fleek: The service wants to detect slang terms before they’re considered cool (alistdaily)
- The departure of Samsung’s Milk VR video content boss has soured some opinions on the company’s future plans (Re/code)
- The children have spoken, and they want their parents to quit posting about them on social media (The New York Times)
- Why more educators are using ZooKazam’s AR app experience in the classroom (alistdaily)
- The power of Harry Potter – and China’s box office – look to be in Time Warner’s favor (Los Angeles Times)
- Total digital ad spending is expected to surpass TV for the first time next year (eMarketer)
- Understanding the dramatic spike in ADHD cases among today’s kids (Quartz)
- Beyond make-believe: What the future looks like for the Maker Movement (Re/code)
- Research shows playing with blocks sets the foundation for a child’s STEM-filled future (Johns Hopkins)
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