- SpongeBob and the looming SVOD war between Netflix and Amazon (The MotleyFool)
- Google celebrates Maurice Sendak’s 85th birthday with an animated tour (CNet/Google)
- This year’s top 50 creative thinkers in entertainment, tech and advertising (AdAge)
- A peek inside the creative process of specialty toyco Melissa & Doug (New York Times)
- On the eve of E3, the worst console game ever made, resurfaces (Mashable)
- Amazon Kindles head for one of the world’s largest mobile markets (CNET)
- And as Kindles enter China, DreamWorks Animations’ The Croods is on its way out (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Video games have sparked many ethical debates, but the latest study finds that they actually make kids more morally aware (The Independent)
- After conquering the world of adolescent girls, Justin Bieber sets sights on space (Mashable)
- Has Zynga bought the Farm(ville)? Social gaming company lays off 520, shutters L.A. office (All Things Digital)
- Lionsgate focuses TV biz on SVOD services, including animated comedy for Amazon (Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney’s Anne Sweeney talks about the Twitter effect on programming (Wall Street Journal)
- Is Pinterest of interest to your brand? Find out what kind of images get repinned the most. (MediaPost)
- We spend, on average, an hour a day on our smartphones. But iPhone users get 15 more minutes of quality time with their devices (All Things D)
- Amazon’s new Kindle Words makes fan fiction more of a reality, for better or worse (Metro)
- Mattel’s latest marketing campaign sends Barbie truck driving across the US (Advertising Age)
- Give Google+ more credit, it has 10% more account holders than Twitter (eMarketer)
- Netflix content chief explains the backlash to the BBC’s policy towards licensing kids’ shows to VOD services (The Guardian)
- Meanwhile, one streaming service re-enters the fray with some interesting ties to cable (TechCrunch)
- Get ready for 3.6 billion global internet users by 2017 – that’s more than 48% of the world’s projected population (MediaPost)
- Is Sony on the verge of clipping its Entertainment wing? (Variety)
- Brace yourself: Disney Parks’ new MagicBand wearable tech is going to entertain far beyond Splash Mountain (Los Angeles)
- Normally confined to the halls of E3, brand-new Nintendo games will be playable at 110 Best Buy stores (CNET)
- Why clothing retailers are having difficulty with teens (CNBC)
- Are we entering the era of IBM? (Forbes)
- The percentage of US households with breadwinning moms has reached an all-time high at 40% (Los Angeles Times)
- Toys ‘R’ Us has the smarts to open a store entirely dedicated to educational products, its fastest-growing segment (The Globe and Mail)
- Apple CEO proves the company is still cool by breaking out the calculator (The Wall Street Journal)
- Gaming vets want to use the power of Kickstarter to stage comeback (TechCrunch)
- Far from a house of cards: Netflix’s chief content officer has some concrete plans to change Hollywood (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Immense pressure leads to growing preschool MBA programs in China (The Globe and Mail)
- How the world will change once we all start wearing our tech on our sleeves (Mashable)
- When it comes to unhealthy food, boys are more swayed by sport stars’ endorsements than girls (ABC News)
- Experiencing COPPA confusion? A free webinar hosted by the US FTC wants to answer your questions (KidSafe)
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