- Amazon bests Netflix for SVOD supremacy at the Oscars… (The Hollywood Report)
- …While Amazon-owned Twitch makes big e-commerce moves by allowing sales of game downloads (The Verge)
- Children can safely play with their phones as health risks need not apply. Maybe. (Wired)
- With a new Massachusetts factory in the works, Hasbro brings Play-Doh manufacturing back to the US (Fortune)
- Are AR apps the only reason kids are playing outside? (App Advice)
- Disney’s Maker Studios division sheds staff and thousands of creators in order to turn things around (Engadget)
- How tech and gender inclusivity are moving the toy industry forward (Fortune)
- Smart toy sales will reach US$8.8 billion by 2020, but at what cost to kids’ privacy? (CNET)
- The web’s most-searched Sesame Street questions finally get answers from Elmo, Bert and more (Wired)
- J.C. Penney’s former CEO says Walmart is the only one taking Amazon seriously (CNBC)
- How come Latino kindergarteners are months behind their white peers in math? (The Atlantic)
- Longtime Paramount Pictures CEO won’t stick around for Viacom’s turnaround (Fortune)
- According to five top-level execs, this is why Disney’s Maker Studios has gone from princess to pumpkin (Digiday)
- Beyond the walled garden: Vtech’s new Android tablet will come with its own kid-friendly messaging system (Engadget)
- A top London girls school is going the distance to erase gender lines (The Independent)
- AwesomenessTV co-founder and CEO Brian Robbins resigns (The Hollywood Reporter)
- China is on the map for Six Flags, which is doubling its theme park construction in the region (Variety)
- Low-cost Google Cardboard led last year’s market share of VR headset shipments (Digital TV Europe)
- How Cartoon Network uses automatic content recognition to connect its Mighty Magiswords apps (alistdaily)
- What influences the influencers? Gen Z is most likely to watch product reviews above other content on YouTube (eMarketer)
- TV is adapting to the times, but the revolution is far from here (The Verge)
- Heightened competition leads Toys “R” Us to cut 250 corporate jobs (Forbes)
- Print magazine sales are down across the board, so how is Peppa Pig successfully withstanding the newsstand? (The Guardian)
- Hatchimals go small (CNN)
- More than half of teens have seen live video, and 30% of them have actually made one (eMarketer)
- How Hot Wheels is helping Mattel reach a younger mobile gaming audience (Games Industry)
- Keeping parents connected to their kids at school has landed startup Brightwheel US$10 million (TechCrunch)
- A new art projector toy really wants to emphasize the A in STEAM (The Verge)
- The UK is taking a modern approach to removing kids’ fear of the doctor, thanks to VR (Wired)
- How should everyone react when a child’s favorite YouTuber does something wrong? (The Boston Globe)
- More layoffs are expected at Disney-owned digital network Maker Studios (The Hollywood Reporter)
- While Amazon and Walmart engage in an e-commerce war, it’s the American consumer who really wins (Observer)
- Mulan’s Niki Caro will become Disney’s second female director to lead a US$100-million blockbuster (The Hollywood Reporter)
- This offline coding toy just nabbed a US$3-million investment (TechCrunch)
- Kids are naturally curious and tech-inclined, so does that make them good business people? (Entrepreneur)
- When Pokémon GO grows, will the flocks of fans follow? (Recode)
- Change in the airwaves? Disney’s CEO isn’t a big fan of commercials (Nasdaq)
- Australian kids are spending more time online than watching TV (ABC Online)
- IMAX launches a flagship virtual reality theater in L.A. (Variety)
- A lesson in stop-motion animation, courtesy of the man behind Lego Batman (Wired)
- Online retailers are doing what they can to avoid excessive discounting (eMarketer)
- Disney’s Maker Studios severs ties with PewDiePie over anti-Semitic videos… (Time)
- …While YouTube has pulled PewDiePie’s original series and premium ad status (The Verge)
- With trouble in Asia, Latin America is emerging as the film market’s next rising star (The Hollywood Reporter)
- This is why Snap is worth US$25 billion (Fast Company)
- Apple Music is at the core of the company’s original content push (TechCrunch)
- Kubo and the Two Strings rises to the top at the 2017 BAFTAs (The Guardian)
- The price of magic has gone up again at Disney’s US theme parks (Bloomberg)
- Adults have started using kids screen time monitoring apps to parent themselves (Digital Trends)
- Want to teach children empathy and emotion? Improv may be they key (NPR)
- Activision Publishing is reportedly laying off 5% of its staff (Business Insider)
- The Lego Batman Movie ruled the weekend with a US$55.6-million domestic debut (MarketWatch)
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