- Has Zynga bought the Farm(ville)? Social gaming company lays off 520, shutters L.A. office (All Things Digital)
- Lionsgate focuses TV biz on SVOD services, including animated comedy for Amazon (Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney’s Anne Sweeney talks about the Twitter effect on programming (Wall Street Journal)
- Is Pinterest of interest to your brand? Find out what kind of images get repinned the most. (MediaPost)
- We spend, on average, an hour a day on our smartphones. But iPhone users get 15 more minutes of quality time with their devices (All Things D)
- Amazon’s new Kindle Words makes fan fiction more of a reality, for better or worse (Metro)
- Mattel’s latest marketing campaign sends Barbie truck driving across the US (Advertising Age)
- Give Google+ more credit, it has 10% more account holders than Twitter (eMarketer)
- Netflix content chief explains the backlash to the BBC’s policy towards licensing kids’ shows to VOD services (The Guardian)
- Meanwhile, one streaming service re-enters the fray with some interesting ties to cable (TechCrunch)
- Get ready for 3.6 billion global internet users by 2017 – that’s more than 48% of the world’s projected population (MediaPost)
- Is Sony on the verge of clipping its Entertainment wing? (Variety)
- Brace yourself: Disney Parks’ new MagicBand wearable tech is going to entertain far beyond Splash Mountain (Los Angeles)
- Normally confined to the halls of E3, brand-new Nintendo games will be playable at 110 Best Buy stores (CNET)
- Why clothing retailers are having difficulty with teens (CNBC)
- Are we entering the era of IBM? (Forbes)
- The percentage of US households with breadwinning moms has reached an all-time high at 40% (Los Angeles Times)
- Toys ‘R’ Us has the smarts to open a store entirely dedicated to educational products, its fastest-growing segment (The Globe and Mail)
- Apple CEO proves the company is still cool by breaking out the calculator (The Wall Street Journal)
- Gaming vets want to use the power of Kickstarter to stage comeback (TechCrunch)
- Far from a house of cards: Netflix’s chief content officer has some concrete plans to change Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Immense pressure leads to growing preschool MBA programs in China (The Globe and Mail)
- How the world will change once we all start wearing our tech on our sleeves (Mashable)
- When it comes to unhealthy food, boys are more swayed by sport stars’ endorsements than girls (ABC News)
- Experiencing COPPA confusion? A free webinar hosted by the US FTC wants to answer your questions (KidSafe)
- First Tumblr, now Hulu. Yahoo’s bid for the video site is rumored to be between US$600 million and US$800 million (All Things D)
- A child’s lost notebook finds its way into a Simon & Schuster book deal (Publishers Weekly)
- Ticketing bots move from nuisance to foe for the concert industry (The New York Times)
- Why Reality TV – and all the insect-eating that comes along with it – is healthy for the family (Time)
- Lego majorly stretches its marketing wings in Times Square (Mashable)
- Meanwhile, Lego and Sony want to build a new era of video game-integrated toys (PC World)
- Broadcasters may have a new love for Twitter thanks to Amplify, which sends ads to viewers who are talking about specific programming (The New York Times)
- Why are CEOs supposedly such lousy managers?
- How Disney and Threadless are making magic together (Wired)
- Pink problems: A number of parents are going to new lengths to shield girls from gender stereotypes in toys (The Telegraph)
- Nielsen looks to smarten up its media tracking methods with the help of Jeopardy-winning Watson (Advertising Age)
- In the wake of the Xbox One announcement, what options are on the table for Sony and Nintendo? (CNET)
- Hollywood has mixed visions for Google Glass (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teens are sharing more on social networking sites than ever before, but they’re also being more smart about it (Pew Internet)
- Chinese smartphone users are more inclined to make in-app purchases than those in the US (eMarketer)
- Inside Barbie’s lavish Florida Dreamhouse (The Washington Post)
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