- For American teens, YouTube star power is outpacing mainstream celebrities. Variety survey reveals the year’s biggest online stars (Variety)
- Amazon rocks its second quarter with more than US$23 billion in revenue (Techcrunch)
- Cisco’s set-top box biz gets scooped up by France’s Technicolor for roughly US$600 million (Reuters)
- European regulators take on six Hollywood studios in antitrust case involving digital content consumption (Los Angeles Times)
- With a craving for connections, teen girls make wearable tech fashionably functional (Wired)
- After raising US$225 million, Jet.com takes on Amazon with a pledge to offer the lowest prices on the internet (The New Yorker)
- Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe opens a new world of LGBT representation (The Huffington Post)
- The return of tween brand Limited Too (Mashable)
- Cue the smiley (or surprised?) face: Emoji movie in the works after Sony wins seven-figure bidding battle (Deadline)
- VidCon becomes cultural phenomenon as 18,000 teens expected to descend on the Anaheim Convention Center tomorrow (The New York Times)
- Without the TV nets on-board, will YouTube’s paid service pay off? (Bloomberg)
- Here’s the pitch that convinced ABC to make the new Muppets mockumentary (Los Angeles Times)
- If Chris Columbus has anything to do with it, another Harry Potter film could be in the works (Mashable)
- Conflict, or no interest? Why YouTube stars are giving Facebook the cold shoulder (The Wall Street Journal)
- Worlds colliding: Disney taps Game of Thrones writer to pen live-action Sword in the Stone remake (The Guardian)
- Maker Studios to shutter pioneering online video site Blip (Variety)
- US program kidSAFE explores COPPA compliance and startups in new free webinar (kidSAFE Seal Program)
- With US$5 billion set aside, Amazon sets sights on India with an eye to making it the biggest market outside the US (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Race, gender, socio-economic differences: Are children’s apps diverse enough? (The Guardian)
- Why the answer to all of the world’s problems may reside in a STEM education (Techcrunch)
- How Degrassi: Next Class on Netflix will benefit Generation Z (Variety)
- Iko, a prosthetic arm for kids created in collaboration with Lego Future Lab, opens up a whole new door for creativity (CNET)
- The more things change, the more they’ve stayed the same… A look at Sesame Street’s groundbreaking foray into society back in 1969 (The Atlantic)
- Hulu still considering a more expensive ad-free version of its streaming service (Variety)
- Sony’s PS4 continues do dominate Xbox One in the console wars (Venture Beat)
- The cost of going global: Netflix’s spend on original content reaches US$5 billion (Mashable)
- British government kicks off major review that will shape the future of the BBC (The Guardian)
- Mattel product-invention partner Quirky is running out of money (Fortune)
- Disney and Triggerfish create initiative to support the next generation of African animators (Variety)
- The Big piano will sing its last tune tonight: FAO Schwarz closes its doors following rising rents and online competition (Time)
- Amazon makes a major Prime Day push that’s bound to leave Walmart and Target wriggling in their seats (Forbes)
- Charting East vs. West expectation at the new US$5.5-billion Shanghai Disney resort (Los Angeles Times)
- Study: Netflix’s market share could drop to 50% by 2018 with niche competitors taking a piece of the OTT pie (The Video Ink)
- Identity crisis: With MTV ratings down by nearly a 25%, Viacom is in need of a 2015 facelift (Bloomberg)
- Why Disney is putting a huge focus on games at next month’s D23 Expo (alistdaily)
- In appeasing younger subscribers, Comcast gets personal with new SVOD service (StreamDaily)
- Bestselling author Brad Meltzer continues his children’s series Ordinary People Change the World with spotlight on Lucille Ball (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Minions lands the second-biggest animated film opening in North American box-office history (Variety)
- Target’s search for its next billion-dollar business (re/code)
- The Muppets make successful Comic-Con debut (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Nintendo mourns the passing of CEO Satoru Iwata during a critical time for the company (Reuters)
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