- 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)
- As LOLcats laughs its way to the bank, it’s clear that there’s a merch market for internet memes (The Wall Street Journal)
- Inside the marketing power of the iGeneration (Advertising Age)
- Survey finds gamers’ concerns over their privacy preventing them from downloading content (Wired)
- Kids’ TV-viewing habits not overlooked in the White House living room (CNN)
- Sesame Workshop, National Geographic and Xbox have big plans to make live-action TV and children’s books a lot more interactive (Fast Company)
- Does DreamWorks need a wake-up call? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Stan Lee on bringing his comic characters to video games (Los Angeles Times)
- What we can learn from South Korea’s plans for an entirely digital curriculum (BBC)
- Mattel inches closer to a US$789 million buyout of Hit Entertainment (The Wall Street Journal)
- McDonald’s serves up an in-store TV channel (Los Angeles Times)
- One unlikely brand makes a successful viral game out of YouTube videos (Mashable)
- American Academy of Pediatrics updates its stance on the effects of media on babies and toddlers (YouTube)
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