- Chemical bond: Valentine’s Day science experiment pins are up 300% on Pinterest (Mashable)
- Pee-wee Herman will re-open his Playhouse doors…are people still knocking? (The New York Times)
- More babies will mean more toy sales in China (CNN)
- Statistics show high costs and poor styles are wearing down the wearables market (eMarketer)
- In the midst of its boardroom drama, Viacom profits fall 10%… (Los Angeles Times)
- The importance of play – and why kids aren’t getting enough of it (NPR)
- Pay-what-you-want digital storefront Humble Bundle delves into original content (Games Industry)
TV nets want a piece of the burgeoning eSports action (AdWeek)- Google is allowing VR to graduate from its Cardboard days (CNET)
- Monica Lewinsky wants to fight cyberbullying with emojis. Is she onto something? (Re/code)
- Little laps of luxury: Playmobil’s US$45 toy Porsche offers a lesson in precision (Gizmodo)
- This Montreal animation studio is about to have a film production boom (Variety)
- 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)
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