- Do loud electronic toys interfere with a child’s language development? (ScienceNews)
- The wearables market may have lost its grip (The New York Times)
- Facebook study shows modern child-rearing looks a whole lot different than the days of yore (Fast Company)
- When it comes to public image, Walmart is looking towards sunnier days (Salon)
- Who is ruling the app world in 2016? A lay of the mobile land (The Guardian)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII release date pushed back to December 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Verizon is successfully breaking from its past through its Go90 video service (CNET)
- The on-demand world of Uber infiltrates the child-care space (Fast Company)
- Nielsen to add Facebook and Instagram to its social content ratings (Variety)
- YouTube is making a comeback in Pakistan after a three-year ban (Wired)
- Thanks to Star Wars toys, overall holiday toy sales in Canada were up 22% this year (Financial Post)
- Has this startup won the social advertising game? (Forbes)
- How Minecraft‘s upcoming Education Edition will make it easier for teachers to adapt the game to their own curriculum (Tech Crunch)
- As young people increasingly pay for things with their smartphones, the consumer banking industry faces hurdles (The New York Times)
- Why TV data measurement service Symphony – and its tracking of Netflix – is music to media companies’ ears (Advertising Age)
- The rise of robots means significant job losses (Bloomberg)
- This winter, nearly 300 season or series premieres will bow on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms (Los Angeles Times)
- For Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, the pinnacle of TV content production has yet to be reached (The Hollywood Reporter)
- When teaching kids positive behavior, there’s a fine line between instilling kindness and gutlessness (The New York Times)
- Younger millennial shoppers are spending less on entertainment than older millennials (eMarketer)
- Drones and mind-controlling toys take center stage at this year’s Hong Kong Toy Fair (CNN)
- Texting is so 2015. Why videos and animations may be the next big messaging trend (Advertising Age)
- A transformed Sesame Street readies for its HBO debut (Chicago Tribune)
- Netflix to crack down on illegally accessed content (The Globe and Mail)
- Will 2016 be the year of the machine? Why the convergence of tech means big things are ahead (TechCrunch)
- Stage and screen icon – and Harry Potter’s beloved Professor Snape – Alan Rickman dies at 69 (The Guardian)
- Analysts predict YouTube Red paid service will be a major growth-driver for Google (Quartz)
- Peach 101: Inside the new social network that’s taking the mobile world by storm (CNET)
- AwesomenessTV to support Latino youth audience with an investment in digital media startup Mitu (Variety)
- Taking the long-form road: Study shows a decrease in online video viewers’ interests in short-form content (Digital TV Europe)
- With a dedicated boss in place, Google significantly steps up its VR game (Re/code)
- Activision’s budding movie and TV studio now has a Hollywood producer at its helm (Los Angeles Times)
- In an unprecedented US$3.5-billion deal, US film studio Legendary Entertainment comes under Chinese ownership (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Following a floodgate of fan complaints, new Star Wars toys featuring Rey hit the market (The Wall Street Journal)
- CBS and Warner Bros.-owned youth net The CW may be getting the SVOD treatment (Bloomberg)
- Twitter drops Periscope Now live video into its feed, and why that matters (Wired)
- While the Chinese economy slumps, the rest of the world feels the burn (Washington Post)
- On the inequality of the app economy (TechCrunch)
- Fragmented caretaking – where mobile phones are to blame – can actually impede a child’s brain development (Patch)
- Pixar’s Inside Out takes home Golden Globe for best animated feature film (The Hollywood Reporter)
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