- Snapchat bids farewell to original content channel as well as a number of employees (Deadline Hollywood)
- …Meanwhile, Snapchat is having a lasting impact on toy sales, as seen by Sphero’s groundbreaking marketing campaign (The Wall Street Journal)
- What Pan‘s flop at the box office will mean for fairy tale adaptations and origin stories (Variety)
- For the third year in a row, Disney surpasses the US$4-billion mark at the global box office (Los Angeles Times)
- Netflix raises its US subscription prices as it dishes out serious dollars for original programming and global rights to popular shows (The Wall Street Journal)
- A software industry booms in Canada, with venture capital doubling to US$2.4 billion since 2009(Bloomberg)
- Apparently, there’s more to Sandra Boynton’s board books than meets the eye (The New Yorker)
- Is delaying kindergarten by a year a good idea for kids’ developmental well-being? A new study says yes (The Washington Post)
- With attendance numbers through the roof, Disney’s theme parks are raising admission prices. The world responds. (Time)
- Mobile screens as TV audience drivers, lifestyle products on the rise, and more insights from Nickelodeon and Hasbro content creators (The Hollywood Reporter)
- LittleBits creators want more mini inventors with their new Gizmos & Gadgets (CNET)
- As the US kindergarten experience gets more academic, Finland promotes the power of play (The Atlantic)
- The war for exclusive SVOD rights heats up following Hulu-Viacom deal (Variety)
- With 30% of US children playing with a mobile device while still in diapers, new guidelines emerge from the American Academy of Pediatrics (The Washington Post)
- Is a Lionsgate-Starz merger imminent? (Los Angeles Times)
- What the richest kids in China mean for the country’s future (Bloomberg)
- Status update: Why young teens are compelled to check social media updates 100 times a day (CNN)
- Europe’s highest court has declared the data-transfer agreement between the US and the EU immediately invalid, and the implications are big (The New York Times)
- Meanwhile, Google’s Android is battling an important antitrust case in Russia (Re/code )
- Marketers take note of the power of emojis (Adweek)
- There’s no time like the present for YouNow, as the live social network raises US$15 million in new funding (TechCrunch)
- In the UK, Lego Dimensions’ debut outsells the first weeks of Skylanders Superchargers and Disney Infinity 3.0 (Forbes)
- How technology is bringing TV back to its social roots (The New York Times)
- Why Amazon stopped selling Apple TV and Chromecast devices (Variety)
- Following complaints over inappropriate content, YouTube’s Kids app is getting an update (TechCrunch)
- Despite its deepened ties with Hollywood, China isn’t ready to budge on its foreign movie quota (Los Angeles Times)
- Sony gets into the Ghostbusters spirit, with an animated feature film in the works (Variety)
- A look inside Google’s secretive robotics group (Bloomberg)
- Salary breakdown: What nearly everyone in Hollywood is really making (The Hollywood Reporter)
- After having children of their own, millennials are quite literally re-connecting with TV (The New York Times)
- Searching for a cause? A new mobile search initiative gives dollars directly to youth campaigns (Mashable)
- Simpsons showrunner hints the long-running series will end after season 30 (Independent)
- Skewing younger: Inside Mind Candy’s Moshi Monsters re-launch (The Guardian)
- Dove’s new campaign puts girls’ insecurities – and Pinterest – front and center (Advertising Age)
- Discovery CEO shares his take on the influx of original TV content and the irrationality of some global Netflix deals (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Verizon goes where the kids are with Go90 service (CNET)
- At a price tag of US$1.5 billion, Comcast claims a majority stake in Universal Studios Japan (Los Angeles Times)
- App store domination can be fleeting, no matter how much star power you have (TechCrunch)
- The older the reader, the fewer the pictures. Why chapter books could use more color (The Guardian)
- Mobile growth is reaching new levels in China, where e-commerce is expected to rise 42% this year (eMarketer)
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