- kidSAFE Seal Program offers free webinar to review new COPPA rules (kidSAFE Seal Program)
- Will Mattel’s new hefty investment in Thomas the Tank Engine put it on par with Hot Wheels and Barbie? (The New York Times)
- YouTube makes it easier to push video streams to new TVs (The Verge)
- The move towards total connectivity will be front and center at next week’s CES 2013 (PC World)
- Ex-Disney Consumer Products chair Andy Mooney takes the reins of surfwear brand Quicksilver (The Wall Street Journal)
- How the rise of kids apps and games is changing the idea of pocket money (The Guardian)
- Disney Pixar takes a different online spin at promoting its upcoming Monsters University prequel (Mashable)
- New study relates how kids look at Pokemon cards to theories in facial recognition (Forbes)
- Google enlists Cookie Monster to promote its Google Play platform and get in shape (Adage)
- YouTube crowned the top US online destination for video in 2012 (Neilsen)
- Why Amazon’s subscription kids service for Kindle has a leg up on Netflix and Hulu Plus (Bloomberg)
- New study reveals only half of 25 million US households with Smart TVs are not fully using their sets’ capabilities (MediaPost)
- Nickelodeon defends its SpongeBob app claiming its doesn’t collect information from kids inappropriately (PC Mag)
- Will the now live Nintendo TVii service change viewer habits and use of remotes in the living room? (TIME)
- Disney is set to unveil its secretive new gaming initiative Infinity on January 15 (Gamespot)
- Video game company THQ files for bankruptcy and will sell its business (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Animation studio Timbuktoons creates custom illustrated room murals for ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Timbuktoons)
- How Guitar Hero’s co-creator is running high-fidelity, multiplayer video games from smartphones to TVs (Xconomy)
- Angry Birds Space ends 2012 as the top paid download on the App Store for both iPad and iPhone (alistdaily)
- Why stricter online child privacy rules from the FTC could repress innovation for kids app developers (Vancouver Sun)
- Nickelodeon bounces SpongeBob from the App Store after COPPA violation complaint (CNET)
- Twitter and Nielsen partner on new TV rating metric (The Wall Street Journal)
- Hasbro to make a gender-neutral Easy-Bake oven after petition from New Jersey teen (Los Angeles Times)
- Video streaming site Hulu reports 65% revenue increase in 2012 to US$695 million (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In a network first, Nickelodeon expects to release its upcoming preschool series Wallykazam as a mobile product first (The New York Times)
- The Jim Henson Company to produce content for new Millennial-targeting TV channel (The Wrap)
- Raspberry Pi launches an app store to help developers, especially kids, share their games and make money (Tech Crunch)
- Check out these useful insights from San Francisco’s Digital Game Monetization Summit (Games Industry)
- How it takes a military effort at Toys ‘R’ Us to deliver its holiday product orders (The Wall Street Journal)
- The Avengers, The Hunger Games and Twilight were the top three best-selling DVD titles of 2012 (Nielsen)
- With e-commerce booming, here are five trends that are derailing traditional retail (Forbes)
- One Direction caps big 2012 with MTV’s Artist of the Year award (Examiner)
- Angry Birds takes two spots on the top 10 list of viral ad campaigns of 2012 (Adage)
- Sony reveals cloud-based Ultraviolet service has more than seven million registered accounts, up 50% since June (Home Media Magazine)
- How Zynga made friends with a small studio and its claymation project (Games Industry)
- Why community-driven ideas are sparking successful events for Club Penguin (Forbes)
- Rovio to release 3D Angry Birds movie in summer 2016 with Despicable Me‘s John Cohen set to produce (The Guardian)
- The Hunger Games beats The Avengers for most mentions on Facebook in 2012 (Entertainment Weekly)
- Strong sales of premium-priced film and TV gift collections are boosting the home entertainment business (The Hollywood Reporter)
- New Jersey girl’s campaign for a gender neutral Easy-Bake Oven gets her a meeting with Hasbro (The Washington Post)
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