- LEGO tops Mattel as world’s most valuable toyco (Bloomberg)
- Meanwhile, Mattel looks to Moms to help boost stagnant Hot Wheels sales (San Francisco Chronicle)
- Got a cult hit waiting for a movie revival? Consider tearing a page from the Veronica Mars movie playbook – project raises US$2 million in one day on Kickstarter (The Wrap)
- In Japan, Nintendo dabbles with the toy-integrated video game trend in new Pokemon release (Game Spot)
- An NBCU exec discusses the complexity of TV Everywhere and why all eyes are on the second screen (Variety)
- What 3D printers can do for the music industry (Mashable)
- On the publishing reboot of the classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang tale (Publishers Weekly)
- Americans are spreading more money around as retail sales rise 1.1% (MarketWatch)
- Will kids catch on to the Vine video craze? (Mashable)
- Getting to the core of who is responsible for the Apple in-game purchasing problem (Forbes)
- On Justin Bieber’s new errant behavior and the concept of teen idols (The Irish Times)
- One Hollywood production company looks to ride the digital distribution wave (Los Angeles Time)
- Inside toy maker K’Nex’s return to the US (The Wall Street Journal)
- One writer experiments with the science behind the Skylanders toy-video game play model (Forbes)
- Navigating social networking demographics (eMarketer)
- Expect more Americans to follow nutrition critics on souring sugar’s reputation (Advertising Age)
- Inside the depths of the Disney-Lucasfilm purchase (Bloomberg Businessweek)
- Error code: Why kids today are not as computer literate as you may think (Macleans)
- Will Rovio climb back to the top of the app store now that the original Angry Birds iOS versions are free with new levels? (Tech Crunch)
- Lionsgate turns to Instagram for new Hunger Games promotion (Mashable)
- For the families that blog together… DC Comics introduces a new content hub for parents and kids (Wired)
- Inside the Smosh monetization model and how Alloy Digital’s web series are making millions (All Things D)
- Disney primes its characters for the social media world with new site Oh My Disney (Mashable)
- Walmart is thinking small, launching more stores that are below 60,000 square feet (The Wall Street Journal)
- Sesame Workshop thanks its one billion YouTube viewers with, appropriately, a new YouTube video (YouTube)
- Why online streaming services are the new TV networks (The New York Times)
- How one 12-year-old’s home video managed to reach Hollywood status (Fast Company)
- Meanwhile, Hollywood films are suffering from a bad case of the winter blues (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Facing a reality? Facebook thinks it is losing kids’ interest to more agile, trendy apps (Daily Mail)
- Target’s new Canadian stores launch with an old-fashioned toy strategy in tow (The Globe and Mail)
- On Disney’s remake of the most-watched film in history (New York Times)
- Add National Geographic to the long list of Angry Birds partners (The Montreal Gazette)
- Business is booming –global revenue from app stores expects to reach US$25 billion this year (The Wall Street Journal)
- Why Hasbro’s multiplatform, multigenerational toy strategy is working (The New York Times)
- The ongoing legal battle for Superman rights continues (The Hollywood Reporter)
- 10 youth innovators and their groundbreaking digital products (Mashable)
- A victim of gun violence who is also a children’s video game developer delves into the controversy behind her craft (Slate)
- Apple’s reinvention of post-secondary education is well underway with iTunes U hitting one billion downloads (All Things D)
- And the Bratz-Mattel legal saga continues…(Wall Street Journal)
- MTV sets the pace for a new era of brand engagement on photo-sharing app Instagram (eMarketer)
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