- On Nickelodeon’s stellar licensing year with the Ninja Turtles (The Hollywood Reporter)
- One of China’s largest mobile game developers – already backed by Disney – picks up an extra US$50 million in funding (TechCrunch)
- Junk food advertising to kids infiltrates the mobile gaming space (The Globe and Mail)
- Understanding the selfie generation (Today)
- Too much of anything can be a bad thing, right? A look at kids’ plentiful extra-curricular activities (The New York Times)
- Publishers – and those attending New York Comic Con – see trend of more comics that appeal to both kids and adults alike (Publishers Weekly)
- There’s a double standard when it comes to former Disney stars donning new images, just ask Zac and Miley (Variety)
- New theories on the potential developmental delays experienced by kids living in poverty (The Toronto Star)
- Researchers find a new secret to enabling good childhood behavior (The Huffington Post)
- Seasoned shoppers: A full 81% of people in the UK will do at least some online gift-buying this holiday season (eMarketer)
- What the UK’s top-paid CEO is going to do for Apple’s retail game (Mashable)
- Global online TV and video revenues will more than double to a whopping US$34.99 billion by 2018 (Broadband TV News)
- UK baby boom said to give this holiday season its biggest retail boost in five years (Bloomberg)
- Will the Netflix-cable TV rivalry soon be settled with set-top boxes? (The Wall Street Journal)
- China’s most popular children’s program falls under heat for portraying too much violence (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Is your brand making these mistakes on YouTube? (Mashable)
- A new chapter in publishing? McDonald’s gets ready to distribute 20 million books next month (Advertising Age)
- The House wins: Walt Disney deemed the most-loved company in the world (Ad Week)
- Why is there still such a large price gap between Canadian and US goods? (The Globe and Mail)
- Twitter more popular than Facebook amongst US Teens (Voice of America)
- While more than 90% of young people are considered digital natives in the developed world, those in developing countries show some striking differences (The New York Times)
- Socratic, an online open community for teachers to share educational video content, gets US$1.5 million backing (Venture Beat)
- Pixar closes its Vancouver office (The Globe and Mail)
- Hasbro goes back to the Elmo well this Christmas (The New York Times)
- Is web video consolidation the secret to success? Alloy and Break Media are up to the challenge with new venture Defy (All Things D)
- The Filip wearable watch for kids – and subtle tracking device for parents – brings AT&T on-board (PC Mag)
- A new direction for Archie Comics? (Montreal Gazette)
- Why the Twitter IPO won’t be like the Facebook fiasco (Yahoo! Finance)
- Could the US government shutdown negatively impact holiday retail sales? (Los Angeles Times)
- Looks like gender stereotypes are stronger than ever on Facebook (Time)
- Twitter opens books ahead of IPO (The New York Times)
- Getting investigative journalism across to kids? There’s now an app for that (All Things D)
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