• Waging the battle between content and commerce in preschool television (Times Higher Education)
• Microsoft’s Kin already seeing major price cuts (Mashable)
• Australian study shows tween girls obsessed with beauty (Herald Sun)
• Despite Hasbro’s buyout decline, one trader says it’s still on (The Wall Street Journal)
• From trash to treasure: Restaurant chain Chipotle uses junk email to feed kids (Mashable)
• comScore says a record-breaking 14.6 billion videos were viewed in May on YouTube (TechCrunch)
• What a potential Hasbro buyout could mean for other toy companies (The Wall Street Journal)
• UK Budget scraps plans for gaming industry tax breaks (UK Guardian)
• TVO redesign reflects change in kids’ online content consumption (MediaCaster)
• Is the concept of a best friend disappearing among overscheduled US kids? (New York Times)
• Toy Story 3 proves biggest opening ever for a Pixar film (L.A. Times)
• US kids upfront sees spike in advertising prices (AdAge)
• Small Japanese firm behind groundbreaking Nintendo 3DS graphics (VentureBeat)
• UK kids TV funding fears grow (Guardian)
• Disney buys first Twitter trending topic ad for Toy Story 3 (TechCrunch)
• Tween/teen social network Bebo sold for under US$10 million to private equity firm only two years after Aol paid US$850 million for it (paidcontent.org)
• iPad is child’s play for toddlers (Toronto Star)
• OMG, don’t make us choose – Twilight’s New Moon, Justin Bieber lead noms for US Teen Choice Awards (MTV.com)
• Jonas Bros., AOL team up for new music site, Cambio (The New York Times)
• Waiting for the trickle down effect – MTV moves from reality to scripted programming focus (The Wall Street Journal)
• The most successful teen celebrity entrepreneurs (Forbes)
• Phineas and Ferb and Wayne Newton do Licensing Show (YouTube)
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