- One pay-TV to rule them all: BSkyB to pay US$9 billion to add Rupert Murdoch’s Italian and German units to its pay-TV pot (The Globe and Mail)
- After reporting second quarter loss, Amazon sees more red ink ahead (The Wall Street Journel)
- Takeaways from Comic-Con: Disney Infinity 2.0 meets Guardians of the Galaxy (Forbes)
- Google buys game live-streaming firm Twitch for US$1 billion (VentureBeat)
- Facebook hauls in US$2.9 billion in 2nd quarter revenue thanks to mobile growth (Tech Crunch)
- With Spidey on hold, Sony’s banking on a superteam of villians to compete with Avengers and X-Men (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Head of YouTube music subscription service resigns (Variety)
- Will success at E3 boost Nintendo’s Wii U? (The Guardian)
- Netflix second quarter earnings more than double, but aggressive international expansion may result in Q3 profit decline (The Wall Street Journal)
- Google to stop calling apps ‘free’ if they have in-app purchases (Forbes)
- Barbie may need more than a career makeover (Financial Post)
- Comic-Con brings girls to the forefront (Variety)
- YouTube ad growth has big impact on Google’s second quarter earnings (The Guardian)
- Lego’s brick-by-brick blueprint for success (The Globe and Mail)
- Apple not doing enough to stop kids from racking up bills for in-app purchases (Business Insider)
- Facebook tests feature for users to buy products directly from ad (The Wall Street Journal)
- Lions Gate and Alibaba join forces to bring Hunger Games to Chinese market (National Post)
- Why Amazon may launch a subscription eBook service for binge-reading (Wired)
- After announcing a female Thor, Marvel’s next Captain America will now be black and Iron Man gets a makeover (Mashable)
- China’s state media watchdog threatens to shut down seven IPTV services for streaming Hollywood content (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Domestic animation features help boost China’s animation revenue to US$14 billion in 2013 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why 76 years ago, the NY Times thought Disney would be the future of the economy (The Atlantic)
- Millennials’ love for Instagram is changing traditional advertising (MediaPost)
- How Netflix rules Australia (Mashable)
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