- Rovio plans to open the first Angry Birds retail store in China (Advertising Age)
- Food fight: Consumers more reluctant to spend at retail this holiday season due to rising food prices (The Huffington Post)
- There are other factors beyond streaming services that are harming the cable TV industry (CNET)
- Speaking of which, a struggling TV business may mean big losses for Sony (The Wall Street Journal)
- Barnes & Noble’s new Nook tablet expected to give the Amazon Fire a run for its money – for less (ComputerWorld)
- Final Harry Potter film does wonders for Time Warner’s third-quarter financials (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bad, bad parents! Study finds parents encourage their underage kids to sign up on Facebook (Techland)
- US teachers say children enter kindergarten unprepared (MarketWatch)
- What Warner Bros. stands to gain by keeping Mattel as its master toy licensee (Variety)
- MTV moves deeper into the social entertainment space (MediaPost)
- How Uniqlo is aiming to be the Apple Store of fashion in the US (Daily Finance)
- A new step in the personalization and digitalization of learning (Mashable)
- Sign of the Times – the second-largest US cable operator watches drop in TV subscribers but sees an uptick in web customers (Advertising Age)
- A look inside Activision’s move into the toy world (Toy News Online)
- Is touching already passe for touchscreens? Apple patents new gesture controls (Wired)
- TVs invade the rooms of babies and toddlers (The Wall Street Journal)
- And so it begins… Disney’s new original mobile character gets his own web series (The Hollywood Reporter)
- As interest in the Wii plummets so too does Nintendo’s profit (CNET)
- Communist leaders in China propose new limits on media and internet freedoms (The New York Times)
- Can Halloween resist the mobile revolution? (Advertising Age)
- Is Batman saving the video game industry? (Variety)
- US shopping malls get creative in effort to lure – and entertain – customers (The Wall Street Journal)
- The fruits of Nokia’s alliance with Microsoft begin to show in new smartphones (The New York Times)
- Lessons on how to build a brand from scratch (Fast Company)
- How Pokemon has managed to stand the test of time – and a tough gaming landscape (Wired)
- Is the laugh track back? TV programming gets funnier (The New York Times)
- Netflix takes on UK and Ireland (Mashable)
- Trick, treat and track. Technology lets parents keep an eye on kids’ whereabouts this Halloween (Chicago Tribune)
- Why the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent findings about toddlers and TV are so 2001 (The Huffington Post)
- Nintendo ups its streamed content offerings for the 3DS and Wii (Mashable)
- Best Buy puts its best foot forward in the app game (TechCrunch)
- Former Scholastic exec opens boys-oriented publishing house (Publishers Weekly)
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