- Out of Pixar’s shadow: Frozen wins Golden Globe for best animated feature, surpasses Lion King as highest grossing Disney-produced animated film (The Wall Street Journal)
- You may have forgotten about QR codes, but China hasn’t (Advertising Age)
- Blame Canada: Target’s fourth quarter results dragged down by losses at its new Canadian stores (Financial Post)
- Patent decisions affect world’s biggest tech companies (Bloomberg)
- See the winners of this year’s LIMA Asian Licensing Awards (LIMA)
- In an unprecedented collaboration, YouTube and DreamWorks launch daily original series (Variety)
- It looks like children’s indie booksellers prevailed this past holiday season (Publishers Weekly)
- The US home entertainment industry has taken small steps to get in great shape (The Wrap)
- Canadian media giant Rogers preps new streaming service to compete with Netflix and Hulu Plus (The Toronto Star)
- Apple App Store sales topped US$10 billion in 2013 (Variety)
- For US cable and satellite TV operators, mobile viewing apps are the new enemy (Reuters)
- Understanding Netflix’s unprecedented stockpile of data about Hollywood entertainment (The Atlantic)
- Transformers director walks out on CES speech (The Telegraph)
- Less is more when it comes to kids and learning to be grateful (The Atlantic)
- Why Marvel’s shared superhero universe model has the rest of Hollywood in a creative frenzy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bitcoin makes its way into Zynga’s in-game payments (The Wall Street Journal)
- What exactly is in store for this year’s CES (The Guardian)
- Analyst says investors too optimistic about DreamWorks Animation (Deadline)
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Meanwhile DreamWorks and Fuhu to launch innovative branded kids tablet (New York Times) - Microsoft Kinect jumps into the 3D printing landscape (alistdaily)
- Teen-targeted Divergent named the most buzzed-about movie in 2014 on social media (Variety)
- Despicable Me 2, Monsters University help push 2013 box-office receipts to record high (Forbes)
- Will Netflix put the breaks on its content spending spree? (Deadline)
- The best and worst gadgets of the year – low marks go to the Digital iPotty, surprised? (TechCrunch)
- Why wearable technology will be a key focus at next week’s International CES (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney files trademark lawsuit against video distributor over Frozen Land (Cartoon Brew)
- How companies like Hasbro are striving to keep dolls in girls’ hands for as long as possible (The Wall Street Journal)
- Apple kicks off Made in USA push (San Francisco Chronicle)
- These books were deemed this year’s favorites among children’s publishers (Publishers Weekly)
- Are big-time cable mergers the next big thing? (The Hollywood Reporter)
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