- Amazon Children’s Publishing launches two new imprints (Publishers Weekly)
- Rovio wins popularity contest as study finds Angry Birds Star Wars the most played app among kids (TechCrunch)
- Everything you need to know about four leading video streaming services (All Things D)
- Iconic, 31-year-old video game maker Atari files for bankruptcy (Los Angeles Times)
- Inside the BBC’s experiment with more science-based preschool TV (Guardian)
- New horror fantasy film set inside Disney theme parks brings copyright law issues to light (The New York Times)
- Meanwhile, Disney CEO Bob Iger got a 20% pay boost last year (Los Angeles Times)
- Thanks to Hasbro, Tetris physical games will find their place on store shelves this August (TechCrunch)
- Despite a renewed demand for Chinese-made goods, future growth for the country will be slower than years past (The New York Times)
- Why we aren’t seeing many glasses-free 3D TVs (Techland)
- Price of kids’ smartphone usage coming in shockingly high phone bills (The Telegraph)
- Meanwhile, mobile ad revenue will rise 19% this year to US$11.4 billion (TechCrunch)
- Better together? Nintendo merges console and handheld divisions (CNET)
- Nearly half of kids under the age of 12 will be Internet users this year (eMarketer)
- US kids twice as likely to read eBooks than adults (Digital Book World)
- Dave Coulier’s ambitious plans to bring Full House-esque comedy to movie-going families (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Can you picture the next Instagram? Seven social networks to watch this year (CNN)
- Study finds TV, videogames are hijacking kids’ abilities to fall asleep (The Toronto Star)
- Could Winx Club help convince the traditional games biz to pay more attention to the young female market? (Games Industry)
- Why Disney Junior relied on book tests to shape the direction of its new Sofia The First TV series (The Huffington Post)
- Mickey and Me: Disney World’s new magical wristbands pose questions about personal data mining (Time)
- Riding the brain wave at CES – mind-controlled games take center stage (TechCrunch)
- Children’s bookstores celebrate solid holiday season sales (Publishers Weekly)
- When it comes to boosting kids’ mental faculties, it looks like science is siding with video games over TV (Kotaku Australia)
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