- Expectations sky high for Despicable Me 2 (Variety)
- Will Laika’s follow up to ParaNorman break ground by featuring same-sex parents? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What does Apple want with Time-Warner anyway? (Globe and Mail)
- The NDP Group set to track digital sales due to new console launches (Games Industry)
- Let’s face it, tweens are taking over the world… or at least the modern household (AdWeek)
- How Amazon is ruling the Canadian toy market (The National Post)
- The most lucrative mobile games at the moment – and we now know how much money they’re generating – hail from indie developers, not big publishers (The Guardian)
- Intern from Nickelodeon’s Alien Dawn slaps production company with a lawsuit (The Wrap)
- A little more intel on Intel’s planned SVOD TV service (Bloomberg)
- Japan’s latest video game and merch hit is, er, really mushrooming (Wall Street Journal)
- Is time running out on the drive to unionize video effects workers? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A better understanding of My Little Pony’s budding Brony culture (The Toronto Star)
- Disney rolls out the beach towel… again (The New York Times)
- He said, she said – Mattel files new lawsuit for He-Man rights (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nintendo shakes up its software development model in order to stay relevant (Businessweek)
- Russia’s growing middle class gets Apple’s attention (Fast Company)
- TV execs rejoice: University of London study proves watching television improves kids’ academic abilities (The Telegraph)
- Well, that took about 15 seconds – Instagram’s video service gets celebrity endorsements (Time)
- Meanwhile, is Facebook bored with itself? (CNET)
- Why Snapchat’s new Snapkidz safety feature won’t fool kids under 13 (Digital Trends)
- What happens in Korea… may change the entire movie industry. Disney and Sony test a new on-demand model abroad (The Wall Street Journal)
- Meanwhile, Disney’s Monsters University is hotter than Brad Pitt (Bloomberg)
- Are parents leading the cord-cutting cohorts? (CNET)
- A lesson in retail from Uniqlo, the world’s fourth-largest fashion store (CBS News)
- Close to 50,000 developers are creating apps for kids, and the secret to success, it seems, is simplicity (The Wall Street Journal)
- The LEGO Movie launches its first trailer and attracts 3.6 million views in two days (Business Insider)
- Is Marvel taking PR lessons from Lucasfilm? (Variety)
- Online shopping helps propel UK retail sector forward (The Guardian)
- Steven Spielberg gets a lot of things right, so is the film industry really on the cusp of imploding? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Apple scores a major iPad deal with the second-largest school system in the US (All Things D)
- Nonprofit organization First Book sets out on a new mission to supply more diverse children’s literature (Publishers Weekly)
- Not surprisingly, walking while texting is becoming a real hazard for kids (The Guardian)
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