- With Black Panther and A Wrinkle in Time, Disney is creating a whole new type of heroine (NPR)
- Always on: More than a quarter of Americans admit to being online “almost constantly” (Recode)
- Meanwhile, Facebook’s privacy track record has become a lot more complicated (The Guardian)
- So this is what it’s like to run a store without cashiers, according to Amazon (AdWeek)
- How Agree Online is educating kids to resolve digital conflicts (Springwise)
- Another Apple for the teacher: The tech giant may be gearing up for some big education announcements (CNBC)
- The price of fame? Another celebrity is hurting Snap’s stock price (Recode)
- Why NASA could learn a thing or two from Star Wars (The Verge)
- Can an AI-powered app actually help raise better kids? (Quartz)
- Patch test: Netflix isn’t moving forward with its plans to gamify children’s shows after all (The Verge)
- Amazon-exclusive shoppers are on the rise, but that doesn’t mean in-store purchases are shrinking (eMarketer)
- Blockchain-based video game consoles are breaking into the kids space (Tech Crunch)
- From lavish parties to tutoring sessions, parents are overspending on their children like never before (The Globe and Mail)
- In this era of peak TV, is awards show fatigue settling in? (The Toronto Star)
- YouTube will only let its content moderators watch four hours of disturbing videos per day (The Verge)
- Why A Wrinkle in Time‘s lead character is a good role model for boys and girls alike (Teen Vogue)
- Mattel needs Barbie now more than ever (CNN)
- Disney and Pampers see commercial opportunities in kids’ bathroom breaks (Variety)
- When it comes to emerging tech, this is how Netflix sees the future (Variety)
- A Wrinkle in Time is the latest in a series of high-profile fantasy flops (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Fitbit is making its first play for the kids market (The Verge)
- Weaving its way to YouTube fame: Why this animated spider is ensnaring tens of millions of views (Tube Filter)
- DreamWorks is giving the feature-film treatment to children’s bestseller The Bad Guys (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Black Panther pounces on the US$1-billion mark at the box office (Polygon)
- Why a Toys “R” Us liquidation would gravely damage industry-wide innovation (Financial Post)
- Facebook is betting on augmented reality to lure back Gen Z (Forbes)
- Insiders say Toys “R” Us may soon liquidate its US operations (CNBC)
- How companies with kid-skewing VR projects are looking to build a nascent market (alistdaily)
- Are live TV, sports and ads still relevant? Netflix’s CEO says the SVOD will never touch them (The Independent)
- Frozen arrives on Broadway with something new to say (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A new movie-ticketing platform has raised US$60 million in funding from the likes of Disney, Lionsgate and more (Variety)
- Good, clean fun: The latest Instagram trend has tweens all over…soap? (Tube Filter)
- Snap is planning to cut nearly 10% of its engineering team (CNBC)
- Facebook has patented a self-balancing robot that has a screen, camera and mic (CNET)
- Mixed-reality startup Magic Leap lands an additional US$461 million in funding (Tech Crunch)
- Netflix is officially worth more than GE and Ford…and now it’s coming for Disney’s crown (Recode)
- Online movie ratings are almost entirely written by men, so what would happen if they weren’t? (Fivethirtyeight)
- A marketing company has developed a new way to measure influencers’ reach (AdWeek)
- That’s a lot of right answers: Trivia app HQ brings in another US$15 million in funding (Tube Filter)
- Archie Comics is going to Bollywood, following a deal between the brand and Graphic India (Variety)
- In the ongoing battle to limit screen time, Tencent has rolled out digital contracts for kids and parents (Rolling Stone)
- Artificial intelligence is making fake videos look more authentic than ever (The New York Times)
- Publishers are scratching their heads over Snapchat’s redesign (Recode)
- Start the parade: Disney’s US theme parks land on Google Street View (Tech Crunch)
- Nielsen wants to help advertisers succeed in “audience buying” (Variety)
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