- Disney sees improved Q4 earnings thanks in part to cable networks and theme parks growth (Businessweek)
- KinderTown launches app store exclusively for educational children’s content (TechCrunch)
- Why Simon & Schuster is changing up its sales and marketing operations (Publishers Weekly)
- Facebook makes strides to improve privacy policy (BBC)
- Viacom and Nielsen look into Nickelodeon’s September ratings slump (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Retailers hope customers charge their phones before charging the stores this holiday (USA Today)
- Why e-commerce is taking off slowly in Brazil (The New York Times)
- A full 80% of US smartphone owners use their devices while watching TV (Mashable)
- Nickelodeon adds mom-targeting shows after discovering a new parental primetime (The Wall Street Journal)
- Survey says kids are kind to one another on social networking sites (The Huffington Post)
- The end of an era? Adobe forgoes Flash development (Wired)
- Dramatized book trailers become more common as publishers look at new marketing models (Los Angeles Times)
- DreamWorks’ Puss in Boots a fan favorite among Wall Street analysts (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Endemol continues to attract interest from buyers (Variety)
- Monopoly (the game) helps McDonald’s achieve strong sales (The Wall Street Journal)
- How small brands can still manage to land big bucks (Advertising Age)
- 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)
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