- 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)
- App developer finds educational games for preteens are sorely underrepresented on the App Store (Mashable)
- New report reveals China’s games industry grew 35.1% in 2012 with online gaming accounting for 90% of total revenue (Games Industry)
- US children’s booksellers report strong holiday sales for picture books, middle grade and YA titles (Publishers Weekly)
- Despite global popularity, Twilight leads the Razzie Awards with 11 noms (The Hollywood Reporter)
- GREE comes clean on overcharging minors in some of its free-to-play games (Tech Crunch)
- New report finds TV is still king of the hill for media consumption (Nielsen)
- How Disney’s use of new RFID bracelets is changing the theme park experience (Venture Beat)
- Husband and wife team from England create their own educational kids show (Yahoo)
- New classroom bound Lego robotics system puts kids education first (Wired)
- Speaking of children’s education, check out these new study results that examine how kids’ brains work while watching Sesame Street (TIME)
- Watch out Nintendo, Disney may be entering the handheld console market (Venture Beat)
- The Apple App Store reaches 40 billion downloads, with almost half taking place in 2012 (Tech Crunch)
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