- First it was Apple, now Amazon’s in hot water with the FTC over alleged profiting from kids’ in-app purchases (The Wall Street Journal)
- DreamWorks Animation retools Turbo Fast site to get kids on Netflix (Variety)
- Cartoonist, author and long-time Kidscreen contributor Jim Benton talks animation, inspiration and life hacks (The Detroit News)
- The zombie effect: Close to 80% of apps in the App Store see low downloads (Mashable)
- Animation Guild to review new report on supposed ‘no poaching’ agreements between Disney and DreamWorks Animation (Variety)
- Say what? Social network pops up with no members and a US$4 billion valuation (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix earns a whopping 31 Emmy nominations (Mashable)
- Kids watching fewer music videos on TV leads to cuts at Bell Media (The Globe and Mail)
- Report finds that parents should be limiting kids’ screen time to no more than two hours a day (CBS)
- Disney’s Dumbo will fly again, this time in live-action (Variety)
- Smartphone shopping won’t kill brick-and-mortar stores: study (Venture Beat)
- New report puts YouTube revenue at US$3.5 billion in 2013 (Mashable)
- DreamworksTV on a mission to be the go-to site for kids ages six to 11 (Adweek)
- Harry Potter resurfaces as a now 34-year-old wizard in brand new short story on JK Rowling’s Pottermore website (The Guardian)
- Google goes after Amazon market (Re/code)
- King Digital readies latest game: Candy Crush Soda Saga (Wall Street Journal)
- Why preschoolers – and their parents – can look forward to more quality TV shows (The New York Times)
- UK tech companies struggle to profit as more kids play for free on smartphones (The Guardian)
- Summer box office down almost 20% (Variety)
- BBC’s effort to make female characters more prominent in kids shows continues with Danger Mouse changes (The Hollywood Reporter)
- New study looks at digital and social shopping trends for Millennial women (MediaPost)
- Reading Rainbow’s Kickstarter raised over US$4 million. Now what? An interview with LaVar Burton (Rolling Stone)
- Can Transformers have a US$100 million opening weekend? (Variety)
- Disney looks to draw in more preteens with upcoming Girl Meets World show (The New York Times)
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