- Why Disney is using apps to get kids into the movie theater (Variety)
- Does it really matter that teens are fleeing Facebook? (Forbes)
- Tablets could offer a silver lining to retailers this holiday (Washington Post)
- Crushing it: More than 150 billion individual Candy Crush games have been played to date (TechCrunch)
- Strong TV ad sales give Viacom revenues a boost (Reuters)
- Wimpy Kid does it again, with the series’ eighth book selling more than a million copies in its first week (Publishers Weekly)
- After 35 seasons of traditional hand-drawn anime, Japan’s Doraemon switches to 3D CG (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hunger Games’ bow and arrow toy may just be a little too pretty (The Guardian)
- Do music lessons really make kids smarter? (The Huffington Post)
- The Android vs. iOS battle wages on (Wired)
- Kids in New Zealand are watching more TV than ever, and a new study says they’re fatter because of it (International Business Times)
- A whopping 75% of American internet users are into digital video viewing (eMarketer)
- Is MTV falling out of touch with Real World? (Variety)
- Disney Interactive loses co-president in reorganization (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Oscar the Grouch meets Grumpy Cat in an epic curmudgeonly face-off (Mashable)
- New consoles on the way, but gaming has changed (The New York Times)
- Child Psychology 101: Stanford’s famous marshmallow experiment is back in commercial form (Advertising Age)
- Meanwhile, patience is an unobtainable virtue in the on-demand age (The New York Times)
- Study finds Netflix and YouTube combined account for more than 50% of downstream internet traffic (Variety)
- Twitter is not profitable, but it’s par for the course (Pando Daily)
- Fluffy fur shampoo, anyone? A peek inside the real-world goods up for sale at Hooper’s Store on Sesame Street (Mashable)
- New Thor conquers the US box office (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney Infinity moves revenues upward for the House of Mouse (Polygon)
- Twitter taps nine-year-old, tutu-wearing girl to ring its opening bell (Fast Company)
- In the UK, the scales are tipping in Android’s favor (eMarketer)
- Hunger Games theme park? Lionsgate weighs new opportunities (The Wrap)
- Star Wars Episode 7 to blast into theaters Dec. 18, 2015 (Variety)
- Barbie gets a makeover in China (Wall Street Journal)
- Toys ‘R’ Us pulls a reality prank on the wrong demo, and during the wrong time of year (Forbes)
- Is social TV bound to get stickier with GetGlue acquisition? (Advertising Age)
- UK retailer Argos denies negative reviews surrounding MyTablet (The Guardian)
- On Mattel’s quest to rule the Hollywood monkey bars with new in-house studio Playground Productions (Variety)
- Why more kids cable nets are confident that launching shows via mobile devices first will pay off (AdWeek)
- Marvel re-introduces Ms. Marvel, a 16-year-old Muslim superhero (The Independent)
- The cult of Loki (USA Today)
- In a case of worlds colliding, creator of old-school series Jem has launched a new fantasy game for Zynga (Mashable)
- Digital divides Disney and Dish (The New York Times)
- Twitter IPO more expensive than Facebook sans profits (Bloomberg)
- Canadian retailers majorly hop on-board the Black Friday bandwagon (The Toronto Star)
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