- 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)
- HIT sales rumor #252 surfaces – Mattel apparently back in the running as a buyer (Express)
- Rising ad sales the reason for Viacom’s booming profit (Bloomberg)
- Beauty is in the eye of the Nokia N8 camera, which Aardman Animations used to shoot a record-breaking short (Recombu)
- Surprise, surprise. American teens choose their all-time favorite vampire (CNN)
- Mattel to pay its rival MGA Entertainment US$310 million in damages, fees and other costs (Los Angeles Times)
- Meanwhile, the conflict between Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation wages on (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Are virtual goods no longer the object of gamers’ affection? (MediaPost)
- Why Untold Entertainment’s new web game, which was co-created by a five-year-old, is clicking with parents and kids (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
- Are kids learning a ‘new literacy’ through playing video games? (The Globe and Mail)
- Today’s Harry Potter film debut in China will offer a glimpse into that crucial market’s box-office potential (Variety)
- Retailers are banking on stylish kids’ clothes to lure back-to-school shoppers (Reuters)
- Ways in which Google+ is shaping the real-time marketing world (Ad Age)
- China is no longer just counterfeiting products, it’s setting up fake retail outlets (The Wall Street Journal)
- Speaking of replicas, the UK prop designer for the original Star Wars sees victory over George Lucas in copyright case (BBC)
- Marvel and Disney, on the other hand, will retain copyright over the Marvel Universe for the foreseeable future (Law.com)
- Hackers-In-Training gather at the first annual DefCon Kids (CNET)
- A new study weighs whether new TV ads aimed at kids promote healthy eating (Los Angeles Times)
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