- Mattel unveils an unprecedented Barbie line, full of new body types and skin colors…(Time)
- …Meanwhile, LEGO makes history by debuting a toy figure that’s in a wheelchair (The Independent)
- Facebook’s growth streak continues, with 1.59 billion users and counting (TechCrunch)
- In the UK, young dads increasingly turn to online professional resources – rather than their peers – for parenting tips (eMarketer)
- Why Apple’s iPad sales are dwindling (Fast Company)
- Of all the things coming in tech, augmented reality will be the biggest game changer (Business Insider)
- Netflix and Amazon are stealing the show at Sundance Film Festival (Quartz)
- Pitch perfect: Before Vin Diesel became a superstar actor, he was a ’90s Toy Fair salesman (Entertainment Weekly)
- Tipping point: Study shows UK kids are spending more time online than watching TV (BBC)
- Low-tech toys show high potential at this year’s London Toy Fair (The Independent)
- A closer look at Disney princesses – and their dialog patterns – opens up a discussion on gender roles (The Washington Post)
- Why Data is helping to sculpt a new age in storytelling (AdWeek)
- An 11-year-old girl wants to change the book world, a thousand books at a time (The Huffington Post)
- Doubts are cast on the future of Vine as the Twitter executive exodus continues (The Verge)
- It takes a village to raise a child – and how much intelligence, exactly? (New York Magazine)
- When it comes to startups, a new funding revolution is in play (TechCrunch)
- Toy Like Me, which promotes the presence of disabled characters in play, gains traction during toy fair season (Forbes)
- Do loud electronic toys interfere with a child’s language development? (ScienceNews)
- The wearables market may have lost its grip (The New York Times)
- Facebook study shows modern child-rearing looks a whole lot different than the days of yore (Fast Company)
- When it comes to public image, Walmart is looking towards sunnier days (Salon)
- Who is ruling the app world in 2016? A lay of the mobile land (The Guardian)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII release date pushed back to December 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Verizon is successfully breaking from its past through its Go90 video service (CNET)
- The on-demand world of Uber infiltrates the child-care space (Fast Company)
- Nielsen to add Facebook and Instagram to its social content ratings (Variety)
- YouTube is making a comeback in Pakistan after a three-year ban (Wired)
- Thanks to Star Wars toys, overall holiday toy sales in Canada were up 22% this year (Financial Post)
- Has this startup won the social advertising game? (Forbes)
- How Minecraft‘s upcoming Education Edition will make it easier for teachers to adapt the game to their own curriculum (Tech Crunch)
- As young people increasingly pay for things with their smartphones, the consumer banking industry faces hurdles (The New York Times)
- Why TV data measurement service Symphony – and its tracking of Netflix – is music to media companies’ ears (Advertising Age)
- The rise of robots means significant job losses (Bloomberg)
- This winter, nearly 300 season or series premieres will bow on broadcast, cable and streaming platforms (Los Angeles Times)
- For Netflix’s Ted Sarandos, the pinnacle of TV content production has yet to be reached (The Hollywood Reporter)
- When teaching kids positive behavior, there’s a fine line between instilling kindness and gutlessness (The New York Times)
- Younger millennial shoppers are spending less on entertainment than older millennials (eMarketer)
- Drones and mind-controlling toys take center stage at this year’s Hong Kong Toy Fair (CNN)
- Texting is so 2015. Why videos and animations may be the next big messaging trend (Advertising Age)
- A transformed Sesame Street readies for its HBO debut (Chicago Tribune)
- Netflix to crack down on illegally accessed content (The Globe and Mail)
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