- Can Rovio repeat its Angry Birds success with its new game Amazing Alex? (Los Angeles Times)
- How a “click less” formula is creating longer user engagement on YouTube (AdAge)
- New study finds Pinterest tops Disney online as top visited family and lifestyle site for US moms (Nielsen)
- In a retro move, Hasbro plans to bring back the Furby (Toy News)
- In just three weeks, The Avengers passes US$1 billion in box office returns (The Guardian)
- Nickelodeon Research finds two-thirds of kids watch movies at home with their parents (MediaPost)
- How the pros and cons of social media’s impact on kids needs more examination (NDTV)
- An interesting visual representation of how school kids learn and interact with and without technology (The Washington Post)
- How new Nielsen measurement will make it easier to track the mobile, wireless and internet-based video audience (MediaPost)
- Amazon’s Kindle lands all seven Harry Potter e-books (Examiner)
- FTC delays Facebook’s closing of $1 billion acquisition of photo-sharing app Instagram (PC Mag)
- Who knew? Disney reveals that all of its movies exist in one super unified world (The Onion)
- Strong sales of Skylanders toys help Activision’s first quarter sales beat forecasts (Los Angeles Times)
- Facebook jumps into the app store market with its aptly named App Center (PCWorld)
- New poll reveals 75% of current gamers won’t be opening their wallets for the upcoming Nintendo WiiU console (VentureBeat)
- How consumer rights will be defined in an increasingly digital age (GamesIndustry)
- New data reveals the photo/video app category is the fastest growing from October 2011 to March 2012 (MediaPost)
- How Hasbro’s CEO shifts from toy executive to movie producer (Chicago Tribune)
- Could worst sales slump since 1999 bring potential takeover bids for Electronic Arts? (Gamasutra)
- The possibility of real-life Transformers walking the Earth is closer than we think (The Verge)
- Maurice Sendak, acclaimed children’s author of Where The Wild Things Are, dies at 83 (The Wall Street Journal)
- Angry Birds’ more than 200 licensees help bring in 30% of Rovio’s 2011 revenues (Games Industry)
- How Marvel’s The Avengers avoided the piracy threat last week (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why running a major Hollywood movie studio today is a tough sell (Los Angeles Times)
- The Avengers assemble the masses with record-setting opening weekend (Los Angeles Times)
- YouTube channel funding makes “it impossible to pay average industry salaries” (The Wall Street Journal)
- The Hunger Games sets Chinese market in its crosshairs with June release (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Disney’s new “touch recognition” technology could change how we interact with smartphones (Tech Crunch)
- Nickelodeon ratings woes overshadow Viacom’s latest profit reports (Reuters)
- New study reveals Americans spent 30% more time on consoles versus a year ago (MediaPost)
- Puss in Boots saves the day for DreamWorks Animation’s first quarter financial results (Bloomberg)
- Call it magic, but nearly US$5 million worth of Harry Potter e-books have sold on Pottermore in its first month (paidContent)
- Is the sun is setting on Nickelodeon’s programming staple, SpongeBob SquarePants? (The Wall Street Journal)
- How Machinima.com’s new content has secured a massive YouTube presence with a hard-to-please gaming demographic (The Wrap)
- Maintaining a content library is a tough business, just ask Netflix (Forbes)
- In physics terms, could the Hulk actually destroy a city? (Wired)
- The secret life of tweens online (The Wall Street Journal)
- Nintendo boldly steps into the digital arena, it’s about time (Wired)
- Angry Birds Space becomes the fastest growing mobile game ever released with 50 million downloads in 35 days (CNET)
- How video games, websites and podcasts are replacing novels, poetry and drama in children’s classrooms (The Sydney Morning Herald)
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