- Pixar may be left twiddling its thumbs as Disney delaying prehistoric animated movie The Good Dinosaur by more than a year (The Wrap)
- Meanwhile, Pixar’s so complex it gets its own Grand Unified Theory (Slate)
- Lego enlists Warner Bros. to animate Ninjago movie (Variety)
- Rainbow Loom patent scrap (The Wall Street Journal)
- The US toy market is expected to see a 1% rise this year – so what’s troubling toymaker Jakks Pacific? (Los Angeles Times)
- Twitter’s search for revenue (The New York Times)
- Canadian Postal Service gets into same-day service to bolster online retail (The Globe and Mail)
- Never one to let things grow stale, Barbie remodels her Dreamhouse (Chicago Tribune)
- US retail sales data indicates sluggish growth (Reuters)
- Are videogames affecting the emotional well-being of kids? The UK government strongly believes so (Forbes)
- Twitter goes the IPO route (The New York Times)
- First it was Nick, now Cartoon Network claims Netflix is not hurting its TV ratings as much as some analysts report (Advertising Age)
- A guaranteed hit? JK Rowling is making her screenwriting debut in a Harry Potter spin-off (Telegraph)
- Faster food – McDonald’s tests a new ordering app (Fast Company)
- Tween whiz kid develops robots from scratch (Mashable)
- Why Kickstarter is suspending shady developer donations to Ouya’s fund-matching program (Wired)
- In case you were wondering, here’s the real reason Facebook makes you unhappy (New Yorker)
- How binge viewings and increased competition are ushering in an age of disruption in TV land (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Actor Jim Carrey pens his first children’s book (Publishers Weekly)
- Apple’s iPhone surprise in China (The New York Times)
- Sales of Disney Infinity match Skylanders Giants (Bloomberg)
- Unhappy with current retail options, two young girls launch a clothing line that fits somewhere between figure-hugging girls wear and baggy boys clothes (CNN)
- In an industry first, Netflix moves onto a pay-TV platform (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Walmart’s right on Apple’s trail, announcing a new smartphone trade-in program (Time)
- Chinese internet giant is set to stream Disney, Pixar and Marvel Studios titles across its Netflix-like service (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Are you ready for the microconsole wars? Sony comes up with its own US$100 Vita system (Forbes)
- Does gender have a place in the toy store? (Herald Sun)
- Facebook intends to bring ads to Instagram within the year (Mashable)
- Disney claims victory over Stan Lee Media in billion dollar copyright infringement lawsuit (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Hasbro unveils funny new ad supporting the new fan-voted Monopoly cat piece, and proves felines don’t care about board games (Mashable)
- How did Disney’s Teen Beach Movie fail to become a mega franchise à la High School Musical and Camp Rock?
- After soft summer US retailers offering big back to school discounts (Reuters)
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