- UK retailers rejoice: Online shopping is expected to rise 19% this holiday season (Reuters)
- Kids and the dangers of too much coddling (The New York Times)
- Holiday wish lists see blasts from the past as kids’ desires revert back to the basics (Washington Post)
- Will Comcast’s new partnership with Twitter change the TV Everywhere landscape? (Variety)
- Oakland-based toyco GoldieBlox aims to inspire the future generation of girl inventors with its creative new ad (The Huffington Post)
- Black Friday is a big test for new-style retail (Forbes)
- Twitter, the next TV Guide? (All Things D)
- India’s fast food sector is expanding, and it’s about get even bigger with Burger King (The Wall Street Journal)
- Sesame Street spoofs The Hunger Games (Slate)
- Mattel tries again with Barbie in China (Forbes)
- Snapchat sees 400 million photos shared every day – that’s more than what’s happening over at Facebook and Instagram (TechCrunch)
- The controversial and costly Spider-Man Broadway show will take its last bow in January (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What does it say about us? ‘Selfie’ is 2013’s word of the year (Los Angeles Times)
- As an emerging mobile gaming hub, Finland wants its elementary schools to teach computer programming classes (Mashable)
- Is TV worse for kids than videogames? New research sparks debate (IGN)
- Sony sells a million PS4s on first day of North American launch (The Wall Street Journal)
- Thor hammers the box office again (Variety)
- Why Disney is using apps to get kids into the movie theater (Variety)
- Does it really matter that teens are fleeing Facebook? (Forbes)
- Tablets could offer a silver lining to retailers this holiday (Washington Post)
- Crushing it: More than 150 billion individual Candy Crush games have been played to date (TechCrunch)
- Strong TV ad sales give Viacom revenues a boost (Reuters)
- Wimpy Kid does it again, with the series’ eighth book selling more than a million copies in its first week (Publishers Weekly)
- After 35 seasons of traditional hand-drawn anime, Japan’s Doraemon switches to 3D CG (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hunger Games’ bow and arrow toy may just be a little too pretty (The Guardian)
- Do music lessons really make kids smarter? (The Huffington Post)
- The Android vs. iOS battle wages on (Wired)
- Kids in New Zealand are watching more TV than ever, and a new study says they’re fatter because of it (International Business Times)
- A whopping 75% of American internet users are into digital video viewing (eMarketer)
- Is MTV falling out of touch with Real World? (Variety)
- Disney Interactive loses co-president in reorganization (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Oscar the Grouch meets Grumpy Cat in an epic curmudgeonly face-off (Mashable)
- New consoles on the way, but gaming has changed (The New York Times)
- Child Psychology 101: Stanford’s famous marshmallow experiment is back in commercial form (Advertising Age)
- Meanwhile, patience is an unobtainable virtue in the on-demand age (The New York Times)
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