- 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)
- 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
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