- Comcast CEO talks Netflix and why only the paranoid survive (Business Insider)
- More questions about Viacom’s succession planning (Reuters)
- The sad economics of internet fame: Followers don’t necessarily equal a big pay day (Fusion)
- An Android tablet kids can take apart – right down to the motherboard (Mashable)
- Why 2015 was not the year of the tech IPO (TechCrunch)
- Walmart marketing chief steps down, former Target marketing guru hired to consult (The Wall Street Journal)
- How the original R2-D2 helped shape an emerging cultural attitude toward robots (The Atlantic)
- JC Penney’s new marketing stunt involves Santa, VR and a push for younger shoppers (Advertising Age)
- Pixar co-founder doesn’t view VR as a storytelling medium (The Guardian)
- Disney strikes a streaming deal with LeTV for Hong Kong (Variety)
- A UK police team has taken to scaring teen cyber hackers by showing up at their front doors (Bloomberg)
- How some parents are squashing kids’ hopes for hoverboards this holiday (The New York Times)
- Nielsen reports reveals Star Wars fans are the biggest spenders (Nielsen)
- Angry Birds maker Rovio CEO steps down after just one year on the job (TechCrunch)
- Walmart is testing a payment app that could take the mobile pay war to a whole new level (The Globe and Mail)
- Microsoft predicts that AI will be the biggest tech trend of 2016 (Fast Company)
- How this Mattel toy is literally putting a cricket in the driver’s seat (Wired)
- Why Facebook is posing little threat to YouTube in the world of online video (Bloomberg)
- Giant-spotting: The first trailer debuts for Spielberg’s The BFG (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The odd couple? Why family-friendly Disney is pouring another US$200 million into insurgent Vice Media (The New York Times)
- The science behind the importance of STEM toys for girls (The Globe and Mail)
- Netflix to double down on its original programming in 2017 (Digital TV Europe)
- One Direction ruled the Twitterverse in 2015, along with some of these other topical themes (The Telegraph)
- With its Space mission underway, Lost My Name could very well be publishing the most tech-advanced book ever made (Fast Company)
- How Star Wars markets itself, effectively saving Disney dollars in the ad realm (The Wall Street Journal)
- Study shows global digital advertising dollars will overtake TV advertising by the end of 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What Minecraft‘s victory at the PlayStation Awards means for a transforming gaming industry (Bloomberg)
- Perhaps the secret to YouTube fame comes down to linguistics (The Atlantic)
- Why brands are breaking from using Vine (AdWeek)
- Toys ‘R’ Us reportedly won Thanksgiving Weekend, but which specific toys owned the cash register? (Business Insider)
- How Google-backed startup Lost My Name has managed to sell a million children’s books in two years (The Guardian)
- Did the Nintendo 3DS predict the future? (CNET)
- Survey shows kids today view themselves as being part of The Founder Generation (Advertising Age)
- YouTube Red is reportedly securing rights to new TV shows and movies, which would signal a major shakeup in the on-demand world (The Verge)
- Disney board members are facing a lawsuit from shareholders over anti-poaching tactics (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How internet-connected toys like Hello Barbie are turning heads in the privacy department (CNET)
- Is Google collecting data about elementary and junior high school students’ internet endeavors? (Fast Company)
- A new source of Hollywood gossip: Netflix’s hidden ratings (Vulture)
- How Amazon plans to turn the living room into an augmented reality playground (Forbes)
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens could clear US$2.7 billion in profits (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A full 67% of US marketers plan to increase their future social-media budgets (eMarketer)
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