- NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer on why DreamWorks fit the bill (CNBC)
- Change of pace: China’s box office shrinks nearly five percent (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In doing what it does best, Lego mixes play, design and workmanship at its new company headquarters (Fast Company)
- As kids covet electronics, apparel retailers have their work cut out for them this back-to-school season (Advertising Age)
- Pixar hits pause on the sequel button (Polygon)
- So far, VR headset haven’t flopped, but they’re not entirely mass-market hits either (Fortune)
- Ding Dong: With a US$2.3-billion valuation, snack maker Hostess will answer the call to the public market (Los Angeles Times)
- The merits of unrestricted outdoor play (Washington Post)
- How Instagram is evolving its platform for businesses (Fast Company)
- Tracking Viacom’s exodus of execs – more than 10 with a combined 167 years of experience have left in last 18 months (AdAge)
- Viewers launch #RenewDocMcStuffins campaign on Twitter (Buzzfeed)
- Air Malta launches first-ever in-flight experience for kids, complete with spa service (MaltaToday)
- 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)
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