- Activision Blizzard acquires company behind Candy Crush for a whopping US$6 billion (CNET)
- Writing the book on irony: Amazon opens a physical store (Seattle Times)
- Lego’s not impressed with fan creativity after turning down all crowdsourced idea projects for the first time (Mashable)
- Facebook cracks artificial intelligence wide open (Bloomberg)
- Viacom will tap TiVo set-top box viewing data in order to help advertisers (Variety)
- Study finds the digital divide has narrowed, as mobile usage among preschoolers is universal regardless of socio-economic status (CBC)
- Welcome to the US$21.8-billion age of hypertargeted online ads (Fast Company)
- E-commerce numbers soar in China thanks to innovative WeChat platform (The Globe and Mail)
- Entertainment industry stocks should be jumping following better-than-expected pay-TV subscriber trends…so why aren’t they? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Thirty minutes of video gaming can help improve memory and levels of attention among kids with ADHD (The Huffington Post)
- Amazon sticks to its plans to fend off competition from Apple TV and Chromecast (Variety)
- With Halloween nearing, getting to the sweet spot of the family-run Smarties business (The New York Times)
- Bribery in the digital age: This interactive plate gives kids virtual currency if they finish their food (Springwise)
- The Middle East is on the horizon for Netflix (Variety)
- The New York Times has crowned the best illustrated children’s books of 2015 (The New York Times)
- Watching artists while they work is now a reality thanks to Twitch Creative, which features painters, animators and musicians (The Verge)
- The complexities of kinetics are simplified in this new children’s toy (Fast Company)
- iPad sales slump, while iPhone now accounts for lion’s share of Apple’s revenues (Fast Company)
- Ikea’s latest hack: Turning children’s drawings into real plush toys (AdWeek)
- Twitter’s stock is down 13% due to slow user growth (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Former Yahoo board member predicts the future of consumer media and tech – an industry that will grow by more than US$500 billion by 2020 (Business Insider)
- Those Minions have been very friendly to Comcast’s bottom line (Deadline)
- Apps aren’t the future of TV…content is (Re/code)
- Politics of play: The conflict between Lego and Chinese artist Ai Weiwei goes public (Los Angeles Times)
- Research firm predicts Netflix will reach 100 million subscribers by 2018
- Thanks to a largely female leadership team, Best Buy’s transformation is paying off (Fortune)
- More TV viewing data means broadcasters are showing more patience when evaluating series’ true performances (Advertising Age)
- Staying alive in the online video world requires casting a wide net across many distribution options (Chicago Tribune)
- Bye-bye big box for Walmart? (The Wall Street Journal)
- With US$25 billion in revenue, Amazon’s most recent earnings beat analyst expectations (CNBC)
- Made for China? Hamleys, Britain’s 255-year-old toy seller, is potentially being sold to a Chinese footwear retailer (Reuters)
- Monster High movie adaptation lands The Duff director Ari Sandel (Variety)
- PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo among the top five gaming brands on Instagram (alistdaily)
- Disney kicks its Star Wars marketing campaign into high gear in China (Forbes)
- Netflix needs some serious cash in the next 12 months to fund its ambitious originals plan (Market Watch)
- From myth to reality: Nielsen’s groundbreaking total audience measurement tool that will span all platforms is almost here (AdWeek)
- Marvel deal-making is in full swing, now that an Ant-Man sequel in the works (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Even with its factories at maximum capacity, LEGO is facing a worldwide shortage heading into the holiday season (The Telegraph)
- In showing off its new virtual creations, Magic Leap takes a big step in blending physical and digital worlds (re/code)
- Comcast will unlock viewing data from the set-top boxes and streaming apps used by its subscribers – and the TV ad market could be forever changed because of it (The Wall Street Journal)
- Emojis don’t just magically appear on your phone, there’s actually a systematic process for making them pop culture-worthy (The New York Times)
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