- Falling profits may bring the “made in China” era of toy manufacturing to a close (Financial Times)
- New data shows that fourth-graders are happier at school than eighth-graders (Washington Post)
- Farmville creator Zynga acquires mobile game maker Gram Games for US$250 million (VentureBeat)
- Fox will vote on the potential Disney sale on July 10 (Variety)
- How new tech and personalization are modernizing retail (The Toronto Star)
- Politicians and gambling-awareness organizations call for regulation on video game loot boxes (The Guardian)
- What the connected play landscape looks like today (The Drum)
- Social media stars may be influential, but parents are still the top role models for kids (MediaPost)
- Obtaining a scent trademark isn’t easy, so why did Hasbro do it for Play-Doh? (Quartz)
- Will Solo’s box-office numbers force Star Wars to switch gears? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Solo manages to earn US$83 million at the domestic box office but struggles overseas (CNBC)
- New study finds that YouTubers might be encouraging kids to eat more unhealthy foods (The Independent)
- Major Russian cinemas want more Hollywood options, including the upcoming Incredibles 2 (Hollywood Reporter)
- Don’t count VR out just yet, location-based installations are growing in the US (TechCrunch)
- The third annual KidTECH conference kicks off in London later this week (Medium)
- It looks like Star Wars’ Boba Fett standalone movie is coming to fruition (The Guardian)
- Fortnite helped boost global gaming revenue to US$9 billion in April (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Why all signs point to a big opening weekend for Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 (Variety)
- Will Amazon Echo’s new eavesdropping scandal turn heads away from the digital device? (Los Angeles Times)
- Autobot fatigue? Paramount yanks Transformers 7 from its 2019 schedule (Variety)
- Nearly 20% of Amazon merchants are raking in US$1 million a year, double last year’s numbers (Recode)
- Nickelodeon star and environmental activist Aidan Gallagher joins the fight against plastic (Fast Company)
- How children with autism see the world (The Globe and Mail)
- Lost cause: The demoralizing impact of participation trophies (Slate)
- Comcast says it is officially prepared to outbid Disney for Fox’s entertainment assets (Variety)
- Territorial toddlers: Study says children understand ownership as early as age three (Science Daily)
- What Europe’s new GDPR law means for teen independence (WIRED)
- Why TV advertisers are skeptical of show reboots (Hollywood Reporter)
- Keep those wheels turning…electric bikes and scooters are about to become a lot smarter (TechCrunch)
- MGA Entertainment CEO Isaac Larian has officially given up on trying to save Toys “R” Us (CNN)
- Dumbing things down? These tech companies are looking to make smartphones worse, not better (The New York Times)
- How Alibaba and Xiaomi are disrupting the voice assistant market (AdWeek)
- Inside Walmart’s new plans to befriend affluent city moms (Recode)
- LEGO is quite literally powering up the Batmobile (The Verge)
- Amazon, the audacious and continual disruptor (Entrepreneur)
- Playing catch-up: Apple’s HomePod speaker represents 6% of the global smart assistant market (Digital Trends)
- Facebook once promised to bring internet to schools worldwide, so what happened? (WIRED)
- Be prepared for a flurry of mergers and acquisitions in the aftermath of the Toys “R” Us’ bankruptcy (Reuters)
- How can traditional TV keep pace with a recent rush of major streaming deals? (Variety)
- This is how Microsoft is trying to make its video games more accessible (VentureBeat)
- What Europe’s impending GDPR regulation means for US businesses (Recode)
- Taking a page from Nintendo’s playbook, Amazon is adding interactivity to its cardboard boxes (GeekWire)
- How crowdfunding and technology have changed the face of animation (Variety)
- Timing is everything: Instagram looks to combat phone addictions by providing usage insights (TechCrunch)
- Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee is suing Pow! Entertainment for US$1 billion (CNBC)
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