- Original programming boosts Amazon.com’s sales growth (Stream)
- Ontario’s provincial budget reveals increased government support for digital media funding (Playback)
- Avengers: Age of Ultron slays the foreign box office with massive US$201.2 million opening weekend (Variety)
- New YouTube offering Wonder Quest blends Minecraft and education (The Guardian)
- Comcast walks away from Time Warner Cable deal due to mounting opposition (Bloomberg)
- Scholastic selling off educational tech business to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for US$575 million (Reuters)
- Animation and SFX credit in Ontario, Canada clipped to 18% from 20% (Playback)
- AwesomenessTV courts millennial moms with new online channel Awestruck (Stream)
- Lego Movie creators to inject awesome into a new animated Spider-Man movie for 2018 (CNET)
- A mockumentary for the ages: Muppets reboot to explore the deeper lives of the characters in docu-style series (Entertainment Weekly)
- Verizon FiOS makes move toward unbundling channels (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As Disney continues to build its cinematic empire, competition from Warner Bros. and Sony could see the House of Mouse crack down on licensing (Variety)
- How millennials are shaping a sharing economy and big brands are listening (MediaPost)
- US consumers more inclined to stream content rather than watch live TV: Study (Variety)
- More than a toy story: Hasbro’s big screen and entertainment plans (Seeking Alpha)
- New Tree Story app plants a real tree for every virtual tree grown in the game (VentureBeat)
- A little competition can be a good thing: As Amazon and Netflix face off, they drive each other to create better programming (Wired)
- Concept store Story features AwesomenessTV merch, takes an innovative magazine-style approach to retail (AdAge)
- Theaters concerned about losing the younger touchscreen generation (Variety)
- Warner Bros. grows its animated slate beyond Lego properties with Storks (Hollywood Reporter)
- To compete against rivals like Walmart and Amazon, Toys ‘R’ Us rolls out play spaces in stores (Forbes)
- Former Walt Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook launches new company with US$150 million investment (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why Netflix is moving aggressively into original content waters (New York Times)
- Rovio’s Angry Birds flies into climate change battle for Earth Day (Bloomberg)
- Disney stock gets US$2-billion boost thanks to new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer (MarketWatch)
- To battle streaming competitors, Verizon adds slimmer TV channel packages (New York Times)
- Vessel raises close to US$58 million in a new round of funding (Re/code)
- Apple reportedly in talks to launch Apple Pay in Canada (Financial Post)
- DreamWorks moves up Kung Fu Panda 3 movie release by two months (The Wrap)
- Netflix adds 4.9 million new subscribers worldwide in Q1 exceeding expectations (Variety)
- YouTube-inspired teen flick Smosh: The Movie to hit theaters before web (The Hollywood Reporter)
- China becomes world’s largest market for iOS downloads (Gamesindustry.biz)
- A short- and long-term look at consumer products and TV plans for DreamWorks’ Home (Seeking Alpha)
- Nielsen finds gaming consoles increasingly being used to play video, TV content (Rapid TV News)
- Is is time for gender categorization and toys to split ways? (New York Times)
- Kabam’s CEO on staying competitive in a fast-changing mobile games landscape (Wall Street Journal)
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