- The House of Mouse wants full ownership of Disneyland Paris (Variety)
- Talk about number one: First-born children are found to be smarter than their siblings (The Guardian)
- E3 will open its doors to the public for the first time (Recode)
- Can a great video game-inspired blockbuster ever exist? (The Atlantic)
- This Kentucky professor has launched an app that teaches kids empathy WKYT)
- US retail sales will rise this year, but online is where the real action is… (NRF)
- …So here’s how retailers can curb the Amazon effect (Forbes)
- How Facebook and coding helped this 12-year-old boy launch a hit title (Games Industry)
- Disney is looking to the future of virtual reality with a new startup (CNBC)
- Why the campaign against pink Lego bricks isn’t helping anyone (The Spectator)
- Screens really are doing more good than harm for kids (Science Daily)
- Disney’s long-awaited Avatar theme park will open in May (Variety)
- Another YA story comes to an end as Shailene Woodley turns down being in Divergent’s TV movie (Vanity Fair)
- UK schools are taking a new approach to safety by putting body cameras on teachers (The Verge)
- JK Rowling’s been good to Time Warner’s bottom line (The Hollywood Reporter)
- There are plenty of kids shows set in the wilderness, so why are they ignoring climate change? (Slate)
- School fail: More than half of teachers admit to stereotyping girls and boys (The Memo)
- Gen Z viewers are big fans of ads that feature diversity (eMarketer)
- Tech tools help manage kids’ screen time, but a face-to-face conversation between parents and children works wonders too (BBC)
- Looking at digital innovation through the eyes of a Depression-era kids book (The Atlantic)
- Disney and Zootopia win big at Annie Awards (Variety)
- It turns out no dogs were harmed—the video from A Dog’s Purpose was faked (The Verge)
- Super Bowl, by the (YouTube) numbers (TubeFilter)
- The real storytelling power of artificial intelligence (Fast Company)
- For better or worse, change is in the air at Viacom (Reuters)
- It finally happened, Snap files for an IPO (CNET)
- Kids are going wild for YouTube videos of adults dressed as superheroes (TubeFilter)
- Toys-to-life gaming isn’t going anywhere, at least if these companies have anything to do with it (Entrepreneur)
- What does Netflix CEO Reed Hastings think about Facebook’s video push? (Recode)
- Belle’s box-office power rivals that of superheroes, according to presales of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (MarketWatch)
- Laurene Powell Jobs, Disney’s largest stakeholder, cuts her shares in half (Variety)
- Meanwhile, is the House of Mouse designing a roller coaster controlled by human emotion? (The Independent)
- Snapchat sees AR animations in the future of its Lenses (Tech Times)
- Change is in the air for Oscar-nominated animation house Japan’s Studio Ghibli (The Verge)
- Psychologists say parents should spend less on toys and more on family getaways (The Telegraph)
- First DreamWorks, now Disney reaches a multi-million-dollar settlement with animation workers in wage-fixing lawsuit (Variety)
- Facebook may be getting into the TV game (The Verge)
- In its Prime: Amazon accounted for more than half of all US e-commerce growth last year (CNBC)
- Long-awaited remake of animated cult classic film The Secret of Nimh lands a director (Bustle)
- Pick-up game takes on new meaning, as study says physical activity curbs depression among kids (Science Daily)
- The Boy Scouts of America opens its doors to transgender boys (NPR)
- It turns out lots of people will shell out US$10 to unlock full Super Mario Run content (The Verge)
- Will data help people raise better kids? These bloggers are trying to find out (Technicaly)
- The hairy truth: Study says children like their pets more than their own siblings (Tech Times)
- Walmart scraps its Amazon Prime copycat, but ups the ante with free two-day shipping (CNET)
- A shrinking DVD market has Sony taking a US$962-million writedown on its movie biz (The Hollywood Reporter)
- More bullies lurk in the schoolyard than they do online (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- Faces of the future: A look inside the wild, teen-driven YouTube beauty scene (Wired)
- Kids’ Lego addictions, explained (Fortune)
- An iPad isn’t going to replace the laptop—it actually has far more potential (The Verge)
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