• Major retailers are turning to social media for holiday marketing, but is it working? (AdAge)
• Is Amazon opening brick-and-mortar shops in the UK? (CNet News)
• CPSC looking into the safety of trendy Zhu Zhu Pets after concerns raised (Reuters)
• Twi-hards keep New Moon tops at the box office for the third consecutive week (Hollywood Reporter)
• Smithsonian to host Art of Video Games exhibition in 2012 (Kotaku)
• Walmart new price war tactic: cutting prices on popular video games (Reuters)
• Longtime Disney exec to oversee Comcast’s takeover of NBC Universal… (Wall Street Journal)
• Will Zynga’s Petville see the same success as the popular Facebook game FarmVille? (CNet News)
• Sony’s PlayStation hits 15 year anniversary and gamers reflect (BoingBoing)
• Marvel and Disney set date to finalize merger (MTV.com)
• It’s official: Comcast takes control of NBC Universal in US$30 billion deal (Forbes)
• Online holiday sales are up: ComScore (CNet News)
• A brand profile of preschool-targeted 3rd & Bird (Licensing.biz)
• Check out these illustrated cards that be used to tell tales (BoingBoing)
• Comcast poised to close deal on buying NBC Universal… (USA Today)
• …and how this deal will affect Hulu (Mashable)
• YouTube makes money not just from video, but from its homepage (AdAge)
• Why Barbie isn’t adapting to the local culture in Shanghai (Marketplace)
• Disney dominates Annie Awards nominations (Los Angeles Times)
• ESRB releases iPhone app for parents to find appropriate games for their kids (CNet News)
• Cyber Monday ups sales for online retailers (Mashable)
• Many of the top 100 global advertisers spent their budgets outside the US (AdAge)
• DreamWorks shares up as buyout speculation fades (Associated Press)
• Joan Cusack on narrating WGBH’s Peep and the Big Wide World (Boston Globe)
• Oxford University gets a Gryffindor common room (London Telegraph)
• How shoppers found deals on Black Friday… (Reuters)
• …but retail sales for Black Friday saw a decline from last year (Wall Street Journal)
• 3-D is to pictures what Dolby Stereo was to sound, says Ubisoft CEO (Kotaku)
• Teaching preschoolers the perks of a fast-forwarding TV life (MediaPost)
• Mobile movies are a trend to watch for 2010 (CNet News)
• WGBH launches program to get girls more interested in engineering (Wired/GeekDad)
• Retailers coax shoppers with the VIP treatment on Black Friday (Boston Globe)
• Other retailers experience the Black Friday night life (L.A. Times)
• One dad’s opinion on why EA’s Spore should be used in the classroom (Wired/GeekDad)
• …while more EA properties are hitting toy shelves in the UK (MCVUK)
• Don’t judge a Twi-hard by its cover (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Association of National Advertisers join protest surrounding Nielsen’s metric switch (AdAge)
• ComScore reveals October viewing stats for online video (CNet News)
• Nintendo prez states 80% of US female gaming market owns Nintendo consoles (Edge Online)
• Tuscon toy inventor/lawyer locked in royalties battle with Marvel Entertainment (Arizona Daily Star)
• BBC holds talks about floating Worldwide (Financial Times)
• Why are Zhu Zhus selling so well? (Time)
• Google to track TiVO viewing habits (CNet News)
• Electronic Arts CEO weighs in on the digital future of games (Wall Street Journal)
• A look at Avatar’s interactive promo campaign (Mashable)
• Nickelodeon’s food ads slammed in report (CBS News)
• USA Today’s first look at Shrek Forever After (USA Today)
• Lightsaber-wielding robots are here (Gizmodo)
• Joost goes under, Adconian Group acquires assets (TechCrunch)
• BBC Worldwide told by BBC Trust to avoid mergers and acquisitions (Variety)
• Endemol acquires Tiger Aspect (The Guardian)
• The online price wars between Amazon and Walmart (New York Times)
• How DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg plans on living happily ever after (Fast Company)
• On making sense of the Twilight phenomenon… (AdAge)
• The art behind the stitches of LittleBigPlanet (BoingBoing)
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