- US retail sales data indicates sluggish growth (Reuters)
- Are videogames affecting the emotional well-being of kids? The UK government strongly believes so (Forbes)
- Twitter goes the IPO route (The New York Times)
- First it was Nick, now Cartoon Network claims Netflix is not hurting its TV ratings as much as some analysts report (Advertising Age)
- A guaranteed hit? JK Rowling is making her screenwriting debut in a Harry Potter spin-off (Telegraph)
- Faster food – McDonald’s tests a new ordering app (Fast Company)
- Tween whiz kid develops robots from scratch (Mashable)
- Why Kickstarter is suspending shady developer donations to Ouya’s fund-matching program (Wired)
- In case you were wondering, here’s the real reason Facebook makes you unhappy (New Yorker)
- How binge viewings and increased competition are ushering in an age of disruption in TV land (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Actor Jim Carrey pens his first children’s book (Publishers Weekly)
- Apple’s iPhone surprise in China (The New York Times)
- Sales of Disney Infinity match Skylanders Giants (Bloomberg)
- Unhappy with current retail options, two young girls launch a clothing line that fits somewhere between figure-hugging girls wear and baggy boys clothes (CNN)
- In an industry first, Netflix moves onto a pay-TV platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Walmart’s right on Apple’s trail, announcing a new smartphone trade-in program (Time)
- Chinese internet giant is set to stream Disney, Pixar and Marvel Studios titles across its Netflix-like service (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Are you ready for the microconsole wars? Sony comes up with its own US$100 Vita system (Forbes)
- Does gender have a place in the toy store? (Herald Sun)
- Facebook intends to bring ads to Instagram within the year (Mashable)
- Disney claims victory over Stan Lee Media in billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hasbro unveils funny new ad supporting the new fan-voted Monopoly cat piece, and proves felines don’t care about board games (Mashable)
- How did Disney’s Teen Beach Movie fail to become a mega franchise à la High School Musical and Camp Rock?
- After soft summer US retailers offering big back to school discounts (Reuters)
- New report reveals cable TV providers lost double their amount of US subscribers in Q2 2013 versus the previous quarter (Los Angeles Times)
- Why domestically produced animated movies in China are struggling (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Sherlock tapped for Star Wars role? (IGN)
- How a bunch of rubber bands are bending some rules in the kids retail space (The New York Times)
- How Sesame Street’s new STEM-learning curriculum is successfully teaching math and science to preschoolers (The New York Times)
- Kids love farts in their TV shows, so why not in educational apps, too? (Wired)
- Box-office bombs aside, Hollywood brought in a record-breaking US$4.7 billion this summer (CBS News)
- A more numerical look at the Microsoft-Nokia deal (All Things D)
- A great day for the internet, sort of (Digital Trends)
- Are we doing enough to protect child performers? (USA Today)
- More than half of tablet-owning parents say their kids are using the devices for educational purposes (Mashable)
- Speaking of tablets, the retail wars heat up with some interesting new features (Businessweek)
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