- Toy Talk rolls out Thomas & Friends chatty interactive app (Fast Company)
- Snapchat’s other attempt at monetization: Good old-fashioned merchandising (Digiday)
- Which territories are ripe for licensed toy sales? (Global Toy News)
- A little #TBT: Rating the top voice performances in animated films since Aladdin (Vulture)
- Netflix now making more original programming than HBO (Vulture)
- Ad sales up at Twitter, but subscriptions slowing down (AdWeek)
- Bestselling fiction author Michael Chabon tapped to write new original Disney musical (Hollywood Reporter)
- Check out this Lego-infused customizable kid-size prosthetic (Wired)
- Video app Vine comes into its own as an entertainment platform (Fast Company)
- The selfies are paying off for Instagram, which is expected to make US$595 million in mobile ad revenues this year (eMarketer)
- China lifts its 15-year video game console ban, but censorship still abounds (US News & World Report)
- Nintendo says goodbye to TVii (PC World)
- Netflix’s DVD business dwindles in subscribers but not profits – see how the company’s positioning for growth next (The New York Times)
- Tesco, the UK’s biggest grocery chain, rids its shelves of some sugary kids’ drinks (Mashable)
- Comcast looks to new media companies as it vies for a younger audience (CNET)
- The gaming geeks have won. Now what? (Los Angeles Times)
- For American teens, YouTube star power is outpacing mainstream celebrities. Variety survey reveals the year’s biggest online stars (Variety)
- Amazon rocks its second quarter with more than US$23 billion in revenue (Techcrunch)
- Cisco’s set-top box biz gets scooped up by France’s Technicolor for roughly US$600 million (Reuters)
- European regulators take on six Hollywood studios in antitrust case involving digital content consumption (Los Angeles Times)
- With a craving for connections, teen girls make wearable tech fashionably functional (Wired)
- After raising US$225 million, Jet.com takes on Amazon with a pledge to offer the lowest prices on the internet (The New Yorker)
- Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe opens a new world of LGBT representation (The Huffington Post)
- The return of tween brand Limited Too (Mashable)
- Cue the smiley (or surprised?) face: Emoji movie in the works after Sony wins seven-figure bidding battle (Deadline)
- VidCon becomes cultural phenomenon as 18,000 teens expected to descend on the Anaheim Convention Center tomorrow (The New York Times)
- Without the TV nets on-board, will YouTube’s paid service pay off? (Bloomberg)
- Here’s the pitch that convinced ABC to make the new Muppets mockumentary (Los Angeles Times)
- If Chris Columbus has anything to do with it, another Harry Potter film could be in the works (Mashable)
- Conflict, or no interest? Why YouTube stars are giving Facebook the cold shoulder (The Wall Street Journal)
- Worlds colliding: Disney taps Game of Thrones writer to pen live-action Sword in the Stone remake (The Guardian)
- Maker Studios to shutter pioneering online video site Blip (Variety)
- US program kidSAFE explores COPPA compliance and startups in new free webinar (kidSAFE Seal Program)
- With US$5 billion set aside, Amazon sets sights on India with an eye to making it the biggest market outside the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Race, gender, socio-economic differences: Are children’s apps diverse enough? (The Guardian)
- Why the answer to all of the world’s problems may reside in a STEM education (Techcrunch)
- How Degrassi: Next Class on Netflix will benefit Generation Z (Variety)
- Iko, a prosthetic arm for kids created in collaboration with Lego Future Lab, opens up a whole new door for creativity (CNET)
- The more things change, the more they’ve stayed the same… A look at Sesame Street’s groundbreaking foray into society back in 1969 (The Atlantic)
- Hulu still considering a more expensive ad-free version of its streaming service (Variety)
- Sony’s PS4 continues do dominate Xbox One in the console wars (Venture Beat)
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