- Bruckheimer and Disney set to split (The Hollywood Reporter)
- For Scholastic, sales in the educational technology group have risen 19%; however, its children’s book publishing unit is telling a different story (Publishers Weekly)
- Avengers at 50 (Los Angeles Times)
- What if Disney princesses wore the pants? (Mashable)
- Pixar may be left twiddling its thumbs as Disney delaying prehistoric animated movie The Good Dinosaur by more than a year (The Wrap)
- Meanwhile, Pixar’s so complex it gets its own Grand Unified Theory (Slate)
- Lego enlists Warner Bros. to animate Ninjago movie (Variety)
- Rainbow Loom patent scrap (The Wall Street Journal)
- The US toy market is expected to see a 1% rise this year – so what’s troubling toymaker Jakks Pacific? (Los Angeles Times)
- Twitter’s search for revenue (The New York Times)
- Canadian Postal Service gets into same-day service to bolster online retail (The Globe and Mail)
- Never one to let things grow stale, Barbie remodels her Dreamhouse (Chicago Tribune)
- 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)
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