- 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)
- New study finds McDonald’s and Burger King guilty of promoting giveaways over food (Ad Week)
- China enlists Google exec to help in smartphone race (The New York Times)
- Yet another report on children’s screen time – this one cites too much of it as a source for childhood anxiety (The New Zealand Herald)
- Why does Apple attract so many patent troll lawsuits? (All Things D)
- As The Mortal Instruments flops, are teens finally over film adaptations of YA novels? (Jezebel)
- One successful toy designer on the importance of being nerdy (The Globe and Mail)
- Are ratings really irrelevant for Netflix? (Los Angeles Times)
- Warner Bros. developing new animated Scooby-Doo film (Variety)
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