July 20, 2009

• US back-to-school shoppers look to cut costs (Bloomberg)

• Pottermania storms the box office once again, bringing in US$20 million more than the last installment (L.A. Times)

• DVD sales take a dive (Entertainment Weekly)

• HIT Entertainment cuts one in five jobs (Times Online)

• What are the most engaged brands on the web? (TechCrunch)

• Microsoft’s Kodu lets users build vidgames with no programming experience (Wired/GeekDad)

• Ubisoft taps into the growing social gaming trend (Venture Beat)

July 17, 2009

• Comcast spearheads new web-TV trial for paying cable subscribers (Wall Street Journal)

• How internet collaborators and Facebook created the opening short for Planet 51 (New York Times)

• Will Crocs take its final step? (Washington Post)

• US$825 in funding for DreamWorks? (Reuters)

• Thousands ‘pore’ out to celebrate SpongeBob’s birthday at the CN Tower (The Canadian Press)

• Microsoft confirms retail store openings this fall (CNet News)

• The iconic Happy Meal from McDonald’s rings in its 30th anniversary (ABC News)

• Check out the high tech toys at Tokyo’s Toy Show (PC World)

July 16, 2009

• More retailers start getting into the Christmas spirit this summer (Washington Post)

• Walmart creating eco-ratings for products (Yahoo! News Asia)

• US retail sales are up slightly, but retailers are keeping a low stock of goods (Wall Street Journal)

• Microsoft’s controller-free motion control Project Natal for Xbox 360 will also be compatible with Windows (CNet News)

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince bests midnight box office record for The Dark Knight (Reuters)

• Watch your security on Twitter (Mashable)

• Twilight gets the manga treatment (Entertainment Weekly)

July 15, 2009

• Not too hot to shop – heatwave boosts UK retail sales in June (London Telegraph)

• JC Penney targets teens with new website for the back-to-school season (Reuters)

• Who you gonna call? Maybe this eBay seller of the Ecto-1 (BoingBoing)

• Sims creator Will Wright on educational gaming (Kotaku)

• Pottermania strikes again (L.A. Times)

July 14, 2009

• What can tween girls learn from the vidgames that are being targeted to them? (Wired/GameLife)

• Let Pottermania begin again – sixth installment debuts tonight, advance tickets already selling out (Bloomberg)

• Twitter sees 20 million US visitors in June (TechCrunch)

• On the co-reading experience of Twilight (Christian Science Monitor)

July 13, 2009

• Box office hits bring retail relief, as Transformers toys expected to rake in US$600 million (L.A. Times)

• Excitement, not protest, surrounds India’s first Walmart (Washington Post)

• It’s Harry Potter vs. Twilight in the fight for the teen audience (Wall Street Journal)

• Success of Disney/Pixar’s Up renews investor confidence (New York Times)

• MGA switches lawyer again as it preps appeal in Bratz battle (Law.com)

• On the success – and failures – of celebrity clothing lines (Pittsburg Live)

• Check out Zubbles, the world’s first stainless colored bubbles (Gizmodo)

July 10, 2009

• It’s Christmas in July at Sears (Chicago Tribune)

• Retailers wary about back-to-school season thanks to disappointing June sales (Wall Street Journal)

• New parents turn to secondhand shops and hand-me-downs for baby (New York Times)

• Disney’s Beauty and the Beast gets 3-D treatment in 2010, to be featured at Comic-Con (MTV/Movies Blog)

• Nintendo prez and COO talks success, strategy and the new Vitality Sensor (Fast Company)

July 9, 2009

• Not every big-media head honcho agrees with Disney’s Bob Iger that people will pay to view content online (L.A. Times)

• Hasbro’s merch sales for Transformers 2 already surpassing 2007’s lineup by as much as 25% (Wall Street Journal)

• Hot Topic’s June same-store Q2 sales take a larger-than-expected dip

• Hayao Miyazaki, the Walt Disney of Japan, to be honored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at Comic-Con (New York Times)

• Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon on the wilderness of childhood: Are kids getting enough real-life adventure to feed their imaginations? (New York Review of Books)

• How a Marvel Comics artist pours soul into his art (Wired/Underwire)

July 8, 2009

• Never underestimate the power of the teen mall shopper (Supermarket Guru)

• Parents to increase spending in kids sports and outdoor products for upcoming back-to-school season (SportsOne Source)

• Disney greenlights Camp Rock 2

• Watch out for those 3-D dinos running rampant through Japan (Gizmodo)

• Now you know why it took three months to finish two seconds of Transformers 2 (Gizmodo)

• Warner Bros. and Microsoft UK strike major digital ad deal for upcoming Potter flick (The Guardian)

• Whatever happened to Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson? (BoingBoing)

July 7, 2009

• What are this year’s top 100 retail power players in the States? (Stores.org)

• Nintendo-published games top the UK vidgame charts (Gamasutra)

• New patent infringement law targets Apple, Sony and Nintendo (Wall Street Journal)

• View-Master: The Movie? (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Jakks Pacific and THQ stay in the ring for the WWE battle (TheDeal.com)

• What click-through rate can you get from Twitter? (Mashable)

• Video games start showing up more in Hollywood movie trailers? (Kotaku)

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