• A look at the opportunities in the kids edu-tainment sector (Forbes)
• Video games helped boost the music industry: NDP Group (PC Mag)
• ‘Advertising depression’ on the way (Smart Money)
• Panasonic buys 70% stake in Sanyo (Wall Street Journal)
• Help select the 100 greatest Looney Tunes (Cartoon Brew)
• Get a whiff of Burger King’s new Flame cologne body spray (Serious Eats)
• Wall-E continues topping critics’ pre-Oscar best-of lists (Variety)
• Muppets’ A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa reviewed (New York Times)
• What’s going down at DreamWorks? (Variety)
• Walmart’s bargain deals raise holiday retail sales outlook (Reuters)
• Disney’s Bolt iPhone adver-game posts 700,000 downloads (MediaPost)
• 50 Fashionable Years exhibit featuring Barbie to open at Baltimore museum (Baltimore Examiner)
• Holy Blu-ray Batman! The Dark Knight Blu-ray sales soar (MarketWatch)
• Best Buy shares are up, but can it sustain them? (CNNMoney)
• Toys ‘R’ Us Asia halts expansion plans (Bloomberg)
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Burlesque Muppets? (L.A. Weekly)
• This Barbie’s for the birds. Hitchcock’s The Birds, that is (BoingBoing.net)
• Want your kid’s name on a birthday cake? Don’t name him Adolf Hitler (Yahoo! News)
• Bakugan to hit the big screen (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Twilight sequel date confirmed, prepping for Thanksgiving movie wars (Variety)
• Breaking down the trailer for X-Men Legends: Wolverine (MTV.com)
• Analysts predict more discounts closer to Christmas (New York Times)
• Rumors of a Sony PSP 4000 in the works (PC World)
• Hasbro drops Scrabulous suit (Associated Press)
• 4-year-old breaks into Family Dollar at 3 a.m. to play with toys (Fox4News)
• Are toy retailers really recession-proof after all…?(Newsday)
• …as Toys ‘R’ US reports a wider loss in Q3 (L.A. Times)
• Another best picture win for Wall-E (Variety)
• The Tale of Despereaux reviewed (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The Dark Knight cracks the AFI’s top 100 (Forbes)
• Get things started with a few sneak-peeks of Letters to Santa: A Muppet Christmas (Wired)
• DreamWorks gears up for TV ventures in the face of slow DVD sales…(L.A. Times)
• …Meanwhile, Shrek: The Musical prepares for its Broadway opening weekend (New York Times)
• Li & Fung sees stock decline after KB Toys files for bankruptcy (Bloomberg)
• TRU faces tough holiday season (BusinessWeek)
• KB Toys files for bankruptcy again (Bloomberg)
• A tour through the new House of the Future at Disneyland (The Atlantic)
• Move over, Mario: HarperCollins UK to make classic books available on the Nintendo DS (Times Online)
• Get your degree in video game design at New York University! No, really. (CrainsNewYork.com)
• Woolies closure sales begin (BBC News)
• Sony’s virtual world PlayStation Home launches (L.A. Times)
• Disney CFO says cuts to come, but won’t be as deep… (Variety)
• Hasbro CEO on translating playthings to the big screen (MarketWatch)
• Brit retail sales still on the decline (BBC)
• In pictures: The making of a zombie Barbie (BoingBoing.net)
• Amazon singled out as recession contender (BusinessWeek)
• 8,300 Dollar General stores offer further toy discounts (Yahoo! Finance)
• Rowling claims top spot on book list again, bumping Meyer’s Twilight series (USA Today)
• Retailers entice holiday shoppers with digital purchasing options (Wall Street Journal)
• iPhone enters mass market with a US$99 price point at Walmart (AdAge)
• Teens shell out hard-earned cash on virtual true-world brands (New York Times)
• Could this year be the best for video games ever? (Slate)
• Madagascar 2 scores worldwide box office hits (Variety)
• Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard reviewed… (Chicago Tribune)
• …and movie talks already in the works? (Cinema Blend)
• One small step for man, one giant leap for…teddy bear kind? (Wired)
• Hello Kitty-themed maternity ward helps to ease childbirth (The Daily Telegraph)
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