- The UK’s largest retailer will ban sweets and chocolates from its checkouts, gets applause from parenting groups (The Guardian)
- New website Edululu aims to help parents choose the best kid-appropriate apps (The Province)
- Facebook tightens its privacy settings (Mashable)
- HarperCollins is the latest to support the subscription eBook business (Publishers Weekly)
- Inside the not-so-wonderful world of the Disney family fight for Walt’s US$400 million fortune (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Target tries to solve its Canadian problems (The Globe and Mail)
- Meanwhile, Walmart significantly expands across China (Forbes)
- Simon & Schuster experiments with the eBook subscription market (Mashable)
- YouTube is on the verge of its biggest deal ever with a US$1 billion acquisition of videogame streaming service (Business Insider)
- McDonald’s new mascot may scare kids away from healthy eating (Mashable)
- Godzilla crushes the weekend box office, so naturally a sequel is on its way (Wired)
- Is this the best way to get kids to read? (NPR)
- Is this the real reason why kids aren’t reading books? (Forbes)
- Why today’s screen time guidelines could be outdated (CTV)
- A closer look at the fear behind net neutrality ahead of today’s FCC vote (Variety)
- How live streaming has become an integral part of the console gameplay experience (Venture Beat)
- First Harry Potter spinoff film of Fantastic Beasts trilogy to hit theaters in 2016 (Variety)
- ABC and Screen Australia lose funding in tough government budget cuts (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Those food pics are paying off: Instagram covers people’s restaurant bills (Mashable)
- Are these the most creative kids’ toys out there? (Forbes)
- Shift of the times: TV ad dollars are following young viewers online (The Wall Street Journal)
- The Oreo stars in its first global movie deal thanks to Transformers (Advertising Age)
- Inside the creative engine at Hot Wheels (Fast Company)
- How ABC’s Once Upon a Time lured Frozen’s Elsa to Storybrooke (Variety)
- Is change in the air at Turner? (Advertising Age)
- Why making a great first impression with a well-designed game icon is crucial for app developers (Mashable)
- Moms of teens prefer Walmart and Target as top retail destinations (CNBC)
- Apple is not forgetting about Dre as it hones in on a massive US$3.2 billion Beats acquisition (Financial Post)
- Netflix officially raises the price of streaming for new subscribers by US$1 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Mattel starts renting out Hot Wheels cars to kids (Advertising Age)
- Popular Japanese toon Doraemon to air in English for the first time in the US thanks to Disney acquisition (Variety)
- YouTube and the non-traditional path to stardom (Mashable)
- Nintendo makes a Skylanders-style move toward the toy market (Polygon)
- Why the lack of films for kids this summer doesn’t bode well for the box office (Variety)
- Meanwhile, Warner Bros. is returning to Bedrock with a new Flintstones animated feature in the works (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Godzilla just keeps on getting bigger (Mashable)
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