- The next Harry Potter looks a lot like Twilight with a touch of hocus-pocus (Wall Street Journal)
- Seven things you need to know about the happenings at Disney love-fest D23 (New York Magazine)
- Confirming what we likely already know – tablets and smartphones are changing media consumption patterns (MediaPost)
- Liberty Media scraps takeover of Barnes & Noble, invests US$204 million instead (Bloomberg)
- Disney’s The Lion King roars back into the spotlight in 3D (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hold your horses – Lone Ranger may be back in action, after all (Los Angeles Times)
- You (hopefully) do it every day – understanding the power of smiling (Wired)
- In an attempt to attract younger users, Blackberry launches a music service (The Wall Street Journal)
- A cuddly conspiracy? Study says those cute cartoon characters actually turn kids into nagging toddlers (USA Today)
- Ahhh the smell of it – new Aroma-Scope style of filming is ushering in the era of 4D (Wired)
- Are more babies the answer to America’s economic woes?
- Lessons on the best back-to-school advertising tactics (MediaPost)
- Not everything is made in China. In fact, Chinese goods and services only accounted for 2.7% of US spending last year (Los Angeles Times)
- In Japan, Nintendo 3DS price cuts cause sales to soar (PC World)
- A Parents Television Council study accuses a slew of kids’ cartoons of being inappropriate (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A journey inside J.K. Rowling’s new Pottermore.com (Publishers Weekly)
- Why Sesame Street‘s Bert and Ernie should just be left alone – as Muppets (The Huffington Post)
- How US retailers like Toys ‘R’ Us are playing catch-up to Amazon (Bloomberg)
- Meanwhile, even Walmart is finding that US consumers are reluctant to spend (The Wall Street Journal)
- Pendleton Ward discusses the wacky ‘turbo art’ that goes into his Adventure Time series (Wired)
- Schools shouldn’t rain on recess, it’s just as important for mental exercise, researchers find (MSNBC)
- The mystery behind Disney’s cancellation of Lone Ranger and what it means for other mega-budget productions (Los Angeles Times)
- Could Google’s US$12.5 billion Motorola acquisition mean big things for Google TV? (CNET)
- Toy marketers love techie kids (USA Today)
- Google+ gets its game face on in an effort to lure more subscribers (eWeek)
- An impressive sneak peek at DreamWorks’ upcoming US$20 million How to Train Your Dragon stage show (Cartoon Brew)
- Lost Dr. Seuss stories wind up at Random House (Publishers Weekly)
- Yet another Disney employee is caught facilitating insider trading (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why media companies are feeling particularly shaken by an unstable stock market (Ad Age)
- They just keep getting younger…gadget-maker Vinci is launching a tablet aimed directly at babies (Fortune)
- In other tablet news, the price wars heat up (PC World)
- Eddie Murphy returns to the sound booth for the upcoming feature film Hong Kong Phooey (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Ex-Marvel Studio chair David Maisel advising on Angry Birds’ move to the big screen (Wall Street Journal)
- Even the turbulent stock market can’t stop Apple – the tech giant briefly eclipses Exxon Mobil as the most valuable US company (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The riots in Britain mean millions of losses for retailers (Reuters)
- Gaming company THQ lays off 200 after a disappointing quarter (Los Angeles Times)
- Why anyone with a creative impulse needs to be bored (Wall Street Journal)
- What Walmart’s been up to on the social media/data collecting front (TechCrunch)
- Survey says publishing industry is alive and well (The New York Times)
- Why Payless is getting more edgy with its girls’ lines (Kansas City Star)
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