- Can today’s toys boost future math and engineering skills among girls? (The Wall Street Journal)
- Wake-up call: A full 89% of 18-to 24-year-olds check their smartphones within 15 minutes of waking up (eMarketer)
- A new content-laden children’s social networking site emerges in India (The Economic Times)
- Large retailers rely on big data for survival (CNBC)
- How licensing is the main piece to Lego’s toy world domination (AdWeek)
- Nintendo closes six Wii channels in effort to put all hands on its new Wii U (The Next Web)
- Facebook to weave entertainment data into its social fabric (Variety)
- Youngsters among the cohorts sharing 150 million Snapchat images every day (TechCrunch)
- What’s with the Disney layoffs? Transmedia expert Jeff Gomez weighs in (Business Insider)
- On a roll: YouTube sensation Jenna Marbles and her power over teenage girls (The New York Times)
- Potty humor-laden Captain Underpants tops American Library Association’s annual list of most challenged books (The Guardian)
- How the introduction of cameras could change the face of measuring TV ratings (Time)
- New Mexican Barbie comes along with some controversy (The Toronto Star)
- Would you put your money on a new Justin Bieber-backed prepaid debit card for teens? (The New York Times)
- Tablets aren’t rendering computers obsolete, but they are certainly contributing to a contraction in the PC market (AllThingsD)
- UK officials investigate whether free children’s apps are too commercially aggressive (PC World)
- Samsung’s new Mega ‘phablet’ could have big implications for little hands (All Things D)
- Mobile phenomenon Draw Something inks a Friday night TV quiz-show deal (The Guardian)
- How TV nets are advertising to a splintered, socially connected audience (Advertising Age)
- March’s miserable weather had an impact on US consumer spending (The Wall Street Journal)
- Homework excuses face extinction as new software lets teachers track if digital textbooks are actually being read (The New York Times)
- One year in and Instagram’s strategy proves picture-perfect for owner Facebook (Mashable)
- Barnes & Noble upgrades its self-publishing platform (Publishers Weekly)
- Study: TV-watchers increasingly using second screens while enjoying the tube (CBC)
- Google’s Android is slightly leading mobile downloads this year, but the revenue race still goes to Apple (Mashable)
- TV affects kids’ weight more than any other screen says new study (Time)
- What Toca Boca is doing right in the children’s app space (The New Yorker)
- How Walmart is applying real-time marketing tactics to local TV (Advertising Age)
- Finding the silver lining of the antenna – why children’s TV should be praised more often (The Guardian)
- When it comes to TV content, ABC is getting a little help from its Disney friend (The New York Times)
- How Hollywood will manage to effectively translate the pervasiveness of the tiny mobile screen to the big one (The Wall Street Journal)
- Is it a good thing that kids’ cartoons are taking on adult-like qualities? (Geek Exchange)
- What exactly is the new Android-powered Facebook Home?
- Disney searches for glass slipper fit for new live-action Cinderella (CinemaBlend)
- How Jurassic Park ushered in a modern movie-going experience 20 years ago (Forbes)
- Know an animation up-and-comer? Internship opportunities abound at Pixar (Pixar)
- Game over for LucasArts – Disney closes studio and moves to licensed gaming model (CNET)
- Australian study shows 20% of kindergarten children are developmentally vulnerable (Sydney Morning Herald)
- One parent presses Mattel for more ethnically diverse Barbie birthday party supplies (Time)
- Inside Intel’s discretion and potential TV disruption (Variety)
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