• Teens also keeping a tight grip on their wallets (AdAge)
• Amazon bucks recession trend (Financial Times)
• Disney’s first modern, black princess set for her debut (Denver Post)
• PCs have more than 300 million users, so why is shelf space for its games decreasing? (Kotaku)
• A tour through Hasbro’s FunLab (Times Online)
• Couple dresses as Shrek and Princess Fiona to tie the knot (Daily Mail)
• Hasbro taking over Hollywood? (AdAge)
• Why did the Sci-Fi channel change its name to SyFy, anyway? (Wired/GeekDad)
• Is Moomin in line to become the next Winnie the Pooh? (Publishers Weekly)
• How The Very Hungry Caterpillar found its way to the top of kids book lists (L.A. Times)
• Disneynature’s Earth sees best opening-day gross ever for a documentary (Variety)
• Marvel joins forces with Walgreens for DTR program (BrandWeek)
• Tesco posts rise in sales, says the worst of the economic downturn is now over (Wall Street Journal)
• Canadian retail sales see slight uptick (Bloomberg)
• There’s money to be made in science- and nature-themed movies (L.A. Times)
• Miley’s Hannah Montana: The Movie soundtrack tops the music charts (Reuters)
• Japan and Great Britain bring the Nintendo DS into classrooms (Kotaku)
• Who will be the next Zac Efron for the House of Mouse? (Wall Street Journal)
• Blockbuster to introduce 10,000 rental kiosks (Dallas News)
• Is the gaming industry on the verge of a slowdown or a kickoff? (Venture Beat)
• Observing the Earth Day Generation of kids (Christian Science Monitor)
• Neil Gaiman to pen the final goodbye to The Dark Knight (Wired/Underwire)
• Lego Rock Band to target families, tweens and teens (Ars Technica)
• Disney buys schools in China to teach English to locals (Wall Street Journal)
• Economy takes its toll on Hollywood studios’ marketing budgets (L.A. Times)
• Study finds 8.5% of US kids age eight to 18 are addicted to video games (Washington Post)
• Can the Nintendo DSi attract non-gamers? (Wall Street Journal)
• Young Adult zombie book series, the next Twilight Saga? (The New Zealand Herald)
• Full-length TV shows and movies to make their way to YouTube (New York Times)
• Meanwhile, video sites duke it out for content (Wall Street Journal/Total Telecom)
• Family Dollar stays afloat in the recession (Fortune)
• Retail recovery still months away (Forbes)
• Yo Gabba Gabba! creators talk church and pop culture (MormonTimes)
• Forget the dolls, kids want the shiny gadgets instead (Herald Sun)
• Watch out for that real life Pac Man (Boing Boing Offworld)
• Reminisce about the toys from the past, and the commercials that accompanied them (The Angry T)
• Even with tax cuts, retail sales continue to fall in the UK (Wall Street Journal)
• GameStop’s CEO on how to keep the video game industry recession-resistant (CNBC)
• A look at the technical, five-year creation process of EA’s Spore (Boing Boing Offworld)
• With Bandai’s somen toy, you can’t not let kids play with their food (Tokyo Manga)
• 10 things to do with the new Nintendo DSi (Wired/GeekDad)
• Check out this Pokémon X-ray machine (Kotaku)
• Will Pottermania continue to cast its spell with the sixth movie? (USA Today)
• A behind-the-scenes look at Disney XD’s boy-targeted research (The New York Times)
• Nielsen says online video usage soaring, Nickelodeon in top five most-streamed sites (Mediapost)
• Twitter set to clip the wings of third-party suppliers making money from the site? (BusinessWeek)
• Burger King likes SpongeBob’s square butt. Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood? Not so much (CBS.com)
• Global ad spend sees biggest drop in 29 years, print, TV take hit (Bloomberg)
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