- Chinese market expected to drive more than half of Walmart’s growth over the next decade (CNBC)
- It’s a month until Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuts and Hasbro is running low on toy inventory (Quartz)
- The worlds of Muppets and crumpets collide in British brand Warburtons’ new ad (Fast Company)
- When it comes to girls and STEM toys, who will be the big winners this holiday? (Fortune)
- Media companies say they are having a Netflix problem, so which will be first to forgo short-term profits for the good of the industry? (The Wall Street Journal)
- Star Wars toys deliver the force to Asian manufacturers, driving a 10.9% jump in US toy imports (Bloomberg)
- Why online videos are still king for PewDiePie and his 40 million fans (The Guardian)
- What Mark Zuckerberg knows about the future (Fast Company)
- Time Warner may be taking a stake in Hulu, valuing the streaming service at more than US$5 billion (Variety)
- YouTube’s highly anticipated music app has arrived (TechCrunch)
- Commercial break: TV nets cut back on ads in order to appease the Netflix generation (Bloomberg)
- Facebook is dabbling with disappearing messaging, a la Snapchat (Fortune)
- Thanks to Hollywood and better tech offerings, the US toy industry is about to have its strongest year in more than a decade (Business Insider)
- After shuttering its studio in Brighton, Mind Candy Founder Michael Acton-Smith says the kids game market has bottomed out (Games Industry)
- Big data or big brother? Facebook and Pinterest take algorithms to a new level (Forbes)
- The theme park industry might be growing too quickly (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The Black Friday concept is one American import that UK retailers now want to reject (Bloomberg)
- Apple CEO Tim Cook predicts the end of the PC era (Mashable)
- A brain drain on the wallet: Smart toys flood market with higher prices (CBS News)
- How happy parents are raising even happier kids in The Netherlands (The Washington Post)
- Chinese e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba Group set to acquire Youku Tudou, the YouTube of China (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A revelation: Kinder Surprise unwrapping videos on YouTube regularly draw more than 100 million views (The Toronto Star)
- It’s go big or stay home when it comes to American moviegoers (The New York Times)
- In the Netherlands, a proposed Sesame Street channel move gets political (Irish Times)
- The tech industry can expect massive disruption over the next five years, thanks to cloud computing and AI (Fast Company)
- Why Turner is growing its animation footprint in Africa (Variety)
- Apple, Amazon and Walmart lead Americans’ top-10 favorite brands (Forbes)
- On Sesame Street and its autism-related initiatives (The Atlantic)
- Think again if you believe cord-cutting is a cost-saving measure (Bloomberg)
- The Avengers turn back the clock to their teen years in upcoming app launch (Variety)
- BBC launches download-to-own BBC Store that houses more than 7,000 hours of content (Digital TV Europe)
- Toys ‘R’ Us Canada’s 13-year-old Chief Play Officer is stepping down, leaving one of the coolest gigs in the country up for grabs (Fortune)
- Is there a lucrative future in sight for the virtual reality industry? (Fortune)
- J.K. Rowling reveals that she’s working on another children’s book (Entertainment Weekly)
- How Apple TV will open up the casual mobile gaming market while also thriving on video (Fast Company)
- For better or worse? Amazon’s new Dash Button ushers the on-demand era into the world of physical goods (Re/code)
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