- Angry Birds to enter zero gravity and reach lightspeed in Rovio’s latest game version (Mashable)
- The battle between the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire heats up (CNET)
- A case for endorsing children’s television (The Huffington Post)
- Study finds traditional fairytales are too scary for today’s kids (The Telegraph)
- FTC report puts privacy issues at the forefront for mobile kids’ apps (PRNewswire)
- How Mattel and Hasbro are playing the toy market (Reuters)
- The race for original web-based TV shows is on (The Wall Street Journal)
- And the Nickelodeon 25th Annual Kids’ Choice Awards nominees are… (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How a small NY distributor beat Pixar, Sony and Fox for animated Oscar noms (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Study reveals 57% of children under 12 used tablets to access educational apps (Nielsen)
- Why preschool TV in the UK is on a roll (The Guardian)
- At 11 seasons and counting, SpongeBob has stood the test of time (Forbes)
- Dreamworks Animation to announce landmark JV with China (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why the curation of children’s digital tools and content is becoming increasingly important (Wired)
- Will retro games, apps and Facebook turn around toy sales this year? (Reuters)
- Are digital comics limiting the way we share? (PopMatters)
- A legal tornado is brewing as Warner Bros. and Disney fight for ‘Wizard of Oz’ trademarks (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Toy Fair reveals higher-priced toys, app-based and educational kids’ toys are hot trends (MarketWatch)
- Angry Birds – one more reason to spend time on Facebook (PC World)
- To celebrate Valentine’s Day, Google expresses the universality of love with sweet animation (The Washington Post)
- How the boom in creative new programming for children has become a beautiful thing (The New Yorker)
- New study reveals Apple’s App Store ecosystem has generated nearly 500,000 jobs for the US economy in five years (App Advice)
- Is hand-drawn animation trumping motion capture and kid-focused movies at the Academy? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Meanwhile, Barbie opens her dream closet at New York’s Fashion Week (MarketWatch)
- Hasbro’s higher international sales help offset weaker US and Canadian sales (The Wall Street Journal)
- US revenue from mobile and social media is expected to grow 30% in 2012 (MediaPost)
- NPD signs game-changing deal to acquire and analyze Walmart point-of-sale data (MarketWatch)
- Will Amazon’s move into brick-and-mortar retail pay off? (GigaOM)
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