- With its US$50 Fire tablet, Amazon is better on the art of the bargain (Re/code)
- Artificial Intelligence propels Barbie into her most sophisticated role yet (The New York Times)
- Viacom CEO is of the belief that there is never enough original content, and he’s spending more on shows than ever before (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A look at this year’s Streamy Awards winners, which include YouTube family series What’s Up Moms (Streamys.org)
- Amazon gets bullish against Apple, appeases 4K television owners with its new Fire TV offering (Engadget)
- Social media presents a vicious cycle for kids and teens with mental health issues (U.S. News & World Report)
- The YouTube engineer – a new breed of entertainment programmer – has become vital for the platform (Advertising Age)
- Making kids into YouTube stars has its perks, particularly of the financial kind, but is their safety at risk? (The Guardian)
- Disney delves into its audience’s changing TV habits with the help of hires from Walmart and AOL (Bloomberg)
- CBBC and CBeebies aren’t going anywhere, says the man behind both channels (BBC)
- Out of pocket: Snapchat monetizes with a Replay feature (Fast Company)
- A fifth of UK tweens have active social media accounts, is there really a problem with that? (The Telegraph)
- A copyright case from the early days of YouTube is having a modern-day impact (re/code.net)
- The late Steve Job’s wife is re-thinking American high schools through a US$50-million project (The New York Times)
- Addicted to toothbrushes? This children’s app did its job a little too well (Gizmodo)
- A new Universal Studios theme park will touch down in Beijing in 2019 (Variety)
- Facebook bringing virtual reality to mobile devices, sans headgear? (Wall Street Journal)
- Cartoon Network picks up two Creative Emmys for Over the Garden Wall and Adventure Time (Variety)
- How Universal Studios’ digital marketing helped it have its best-ever year at the box office (Fast Company)
- Disney not moving to OTT anytime soon, COO Tom Staggs tells investors (The Wrap)
- The holidays are set to the make the lucrative toys-to-life category more viable than ever (The Guardian)
- Disney’s Star Wars-themed resort park lands are slated to break ground in 2016 (Los Angeles Times)
- Pitching 101: The early pitch decks of YouTube, BuzzFeed and Airbnb are packed with some valuable takeaways (Fast Company)
- The discussion surrounding kids’ mobile addictions continues (CBC)
- Playmobil follows Lego’s lead onto the big screen in a new US$80-million feature film (The Guardian)
- Apple’s iPhone manages to break all the rules without taking many new risks (The New York Times)
- In partnership with Google’s Niantic Labs, Nintendo finally enters the mobile-gaming market with location-based Pokemon (Venture Beat)
- Piece of cake? PewDiePie becomes the first person with more than 10 billion YouTube views (Games Industry)
- Asia on its mind: After a launch in Japan, Netflix sets sights on Southeast Asia (TechCrunch)
- How ticketer Fandango has successfully transitioned to a movie-themed content hub focused on families (Variety)
- Are gender-neutral toys empowering? Science says yes (Quartz)
- Study shows kids would rather learn to code than to speak a foreign language (Computer Weekly)
- Watch out DailyMotion, YouTube’s launching a production studio in Paris (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Success of Raving Rabbids theme park drives Ubisoft further into attractions biz (Variety)
- Marvel’s first native American superhero Red Wolf to get his own comic book
- Teletubbies shared a post-capitalist existence? Reviewers cast an adult eye on classic Brit kids series (The Guardian)
- Local TV stations create hurdle for streaming services in US (Wall Street Journal)
- US shoppers’ 50 favorite online stores (National Retail Federation)
- With Minecraft guide books leading the pack, kids non-fiction publishing is having a moment (Publishers Weekly)
- For those of who can’t wait until the September 9 reveal, here are Apple’s rumored new products (Fast Company)
- Preschool for robots – for real (Bloomberg)
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