• Li & Fung’s purchase of Wear Me Apparel is the first of more acquisitions (Bloomberg)
• Online ad spend expected to dip in 2009 (AdAge)
• Jakks Pacific lays off more than 100 employees (Los Angeles Business Journal)
• And now, animated bunnies reenact Twilight in 30 seconds (Angry Alien)
• Does it make sense for media companies to consolidate again? (Variety)
• Where the Wild Things Are dominates the box office this past weekend… (MTV.com)
• …while Disney/Pixar’s Up sees top heights at the international box office (Hollywood Reporter)
• Walmart’s Project Impact puts damper on store sales (AdAge)
• Are theme parks making a comeback? (Reuters)
• Retailers lure customers with in-store events to bring sales boost (L.A. Times)
• Studios crack down on social media usage by actors and execs (Hollywood Reporter)
• Ted Turner would put a spotlight on Captain Planet if he took control of Cartoon Network (MediaPost)
• Where the Wild Things Are reviewed (Chicago Sun-Times)
• Toy Story voted greatest ever animated film (London Telegraph)
• On translating short kids books to the big screen (MSNBC)
• Good meme marketing can be the key to marketing success (AdAge)
• Augmented reality is a fad, but it’s also the future (Fast Company)
• Consumers downloading more video games as recession hits retail game sales (Reuters)
• World of Goo vidgame developers offering the title as a pay what you want (Mashable)
• A Q&A with Toys ‘R’ Us CEO Jerry Storch (The Star-Ledger)
• Major studios shuffle exec teams as film industry struggles (Hollywood Reporter)
• YouTube reaches one billion (yes, billion) views per day (Mashable)
• Vidgame analyst predicts industry to rebound from declining figures (CNet News)
• Egmont signs Winnie the Pooh ebook deal for Nintendo DS (London Telegraph)
• Wal-Mart to cut back DVD display space (Wall Street Journal)
• Strolling through Lego fan fest BrickCon 2009 in Seattle (CNet News)
• Is Facebook the most valuable source of traffic? (Mashable)
• Nintendo president anticipates holiday sales boost from Wii price cut (Financial Times)
• PopCap Games of Bejeweled fame secures US$22.5 million in funding (Gamasutra)
• For Disney’s Imagineers, the animatronic eye has it (BoingBoing)
Newsletter
