- Is a Hasbro-Mattel merger really in sight? (Bloomberg)
- As the first movie to be animated in both English and Mandarin, Kung Fu Panda 3 is saying a lot about Hollywood-China diplomacy (Los Angeles Times)
- These are the biggest advertising don’ts, according to the young people of today (AdWeek)
- Reverse gender discrimination is a very real thing in low-income US neighborhoods (Quartz)
- YouTube Red’s first original series will debut next week with an all-star lineup in tow (Fast Company)
- With Sumner Redstone’s departure, what’s next for CBS and Viacom? (Forbes)
- If you’re a Canadian marketer, chances are high that you’ll be boosting your mobile budget this year (eMarketer)
- In its quest for more diversity, Aussie preschool series Play School puts out a casting call for a child with two dads (The Guardian)
- The more things change…Amazon wants to bring back the physical bookstore in a very big way (The Wall Street Journal)
- Security flaws discovered in Fisher-Price connected toys raise more red flags following VTech hack (CBC)
- YouTube to add support for 360-degree live-streamed video (Digital TV Europe)
- Mind Candy brings a gaming exec on-board as its new CEO (Games Industry)
- The new A-list: Google parent company Alphabet overtakes Apple as the world’s most valuable company (Bloomberg)
- How a 30% increase to France’s TRIP tax scheme is raising the bar for animation and VFX services (Variety)
- Augmented reality startup Magic Leap is teaching us all a lesson in successful VC funding (Wired)
- This is quite possibly the youngest boy band ever (Mashable)
- Facebook is one company that’s successfully embraced the mobile revolution – rather than succumbed to it (Forbes)
- A Krusty Krab restaurant in Texas has SpongeBob SquarePants owner Viacom cooking up a lawsuit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Kung Fu Panda 3 kicks its way to the top of the North American box office (The Wall Street Journal)
- Could Apple be next to enter the virtual and augmented reality fray? (Maximum PC)
- Following the Star Wars Rey controversy, Hasbro action figures will never be the same again (Fool)
- Behind the scream: How teen girls have shaped the music industry for decades… (Vox)
- …While a music subscription service could be next for Amazon (Fast Company)
- A first look at what DreamWorks’ Trolls movie has in store (The Hollywood Reporter)
- One UK coloring book publisher is kicking gendered titles to the curb (The Guardian)
- Mattel unveils an unprecedented Barbie line, full of new body types and skin colors…(Time)
- …Meanwhile, LEGO makes history by debuting a toy figure that’s in a wheelchair (The Independent)
- Facebook’s growth streak continues, with 1.59 billion users and counting (TechCrunch)
- In the UK, young dads increasingly turn to online professional resources – rather than their peers – for parenting tips (eMarketer)
- Why Apple’s iPad sales are dwindling (Fast Company)
- Of all the things coming in tech, augmented reality will be the biggest game changer (Business Insider)
- Netflix and Amazon are stealing the show at Sundance Film Festival (Quartz)
- Pitch perfect: Before Vin Diesel became a superstar actor, he was a ’90s Toy Fair salesman (Entertainment Weekly)
- Tipping point: Study shows UK kids are spending more time online than watching TV (BBC)
- Low-tech toys show high potential at this year’s London Toy Fair (The Independent)
- A closer look at Disney princesses – and their dialog patterns – opens up a discussion on gender roles (The Washington Post)
- Why Data is helping to sculpt a new age in storytelling (AdWeek)
- An 11-year-old girl wants to change the book world, a thousand books at a time (The Huffington Post)
- Doubts are cast on the future of Vine as the Twitter executive exodus continues (The Verge)
- It takes a village to raise a child – and how much intelligence, exactly? (New York Magazine)
- When it comes to startups, a new funding revolution is in play (TechCrunch)
- Toy Like Me, which promotes the presence of disabled characters in play, gains traction during toy fair season (Forbes)
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