- Netflix appeases the mobile masses with a series of new updates (The Independent)
- Since screen time is inevitable among kids, why not embrace the creative value in tech? (Fast Company)
- Walmart and its rocky road ahead (Forbes)
- The star tech toys to emerge from this year’s New York Toy Fair (USA Today)
- How Target virtually won the holiday shopping season (Fortune)
- Study confirms Netflix’s destruction of the physical video market (Digital TV Europe)
Why interest – especially when it comes to VC funding – has cooled off for YouTube’s multi-channel networks (Digiday)- Old and new media are at war, and Hollywood’s the battlefield (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hoverboard enthusiasts won’t find what they’re looking for on Amazon anymore (CNET)
- Brain waves: Kids who jump, wiggle and squat while they learn may absorb more than those who are sedentary (The Toronto Star)
- Viacom may sell a minority stake in Paramount Pictures, and what that means for the future of the company (Los Angeles Times)
- Disney’s Zootopia tops TV ad spend (Variety)
- Facebook creates a social VR team and reveals some staggering stats surrounding VR content consumption (The Guardian)
- The new retail reality? Samsung has a new 40,000-square-foot store that doesn’t sell any products (Fast Company)
- Are technological advances in toys making kids lazier? (New York Post)
- Disney reveals first-look of new Star Wars lands in its two major US themes parks (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Creating a gender-fluid society may rest in the hands of app developers (Fast Company)
- Disney is deemed the most powerful brand in the world (Forbes)
- The scary truth: Mattel’s search marketing initiatives uncovered a world of self-competing dolls (Advertising Age)
- Is Hulu too late to the original content game? (Re/code)
- To understand why adolescent girls roll their eyes is to know what it’s really like to be a teen (The New York Times)
- Activision cuts jobs after slow sales of Skylanders SuperChargers and Guitar Hero Live (Games Industry)
- What we can learn from Rovio’s Angry Birds 2 launch (alistdaily)
- Google bids farewell to its Play for Education mobile program (TechCrunch)
- Of all the Power Rangers, it is now the Pink Ranger’s time to shine as a comic book star (Los Angeles Times)
- Why Walmart misread Brazil (Reuters)
- A crop of New York elementary schools are hoping to close a persistent achievement gap (The New York Times)
- A new study sets out to find the world’s happiest children (The Guardian)
- Got US$329,000 to spare? Try raising a child in the UK (The Guardian)
- Not so fast: Why a rumored Mattel-Hasbro merger just won’t work (Fool)
- Thanks to Tesla and Actev, electric cars for kids could be the new norm (The Verge)
- China is experiencing a movie box-office boom (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why India is now one of the most important players in the global smartphone market (Business Insider)
- With New York Toy Fair on the horizon, it’s never been more appropriate to update our perceptions on gender (The Washington Post)
- Implemented to protect itself from legal claims, VTech’s new terms and conditions aren’t exactly holding up in the UK (BBC)
- Researchers believe that ADHD in kids could be linked to overly critical parents (Chicago Tribune)
- When young adult Disney fans take to the far corridors of the internet, the Disneybounding subculture is born (Quartz)
- Virtual reality takes hold of Nintendo’s beloved Duck Hunt game (CNET)
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