- As Paramount Animation gets underway, what the road ahead holds for DreamWorks Animation (Variety)
- They’ve got mail – new startup Kiwi Crate delivers kids their own hands-on activity boxes every month (TechCrunch)
- For food marketers, making products healthier is no walk in the park (The Wall Street Journal)
- Walmart and Facebook team on a new localized app (Advertising Age)
- Disney keeps its eye on India, closes in on deal with online and mobile game publisher Indiagames (All Things Digital)
- Johnny Depp is set to star in and produce a live-action Dr. Seuss movie (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Word on the street: What young people say online impacts TV ratings (Mashable)
- Paramount skips the middleman (ahem, Netflix) and streams its content directly to consumers (Advertising Age)
- A look back at the life and legacy of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs… (The New York Times)
- …And how Apple will fare in a post-Jobs era (The Wall Street Journal)
- One children’s clothing store gets interactive with its customers (Business Insider)
- With an economic rebound becoming increasingly out of reach, US retailers adapt to an era of permanent frugality (The Wall Street Journal)
- From the ground up – Disney’s new original mobile game Swampy bumps Angry Birds off the top of Apple’s App Store (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Canadian government sparks new debate over cellphone usage, claims kids should not use the devices altogether (Vancouver Sun)
- How the Young Adult book market is growing up (Publishers Weekly)
- Are ad campaigns a thing of the past? (Advertising Age)
- More 3D video content is expected to hit the Nintendo 3DS following a content deal with DreamWorks (CNET)
- If the rumors are true, the iPhone 5 is about to make smartphones a whole lot smarter (Mashable)
- From Russia… how broadcasters are shaking up programming in an effort to lure young people back to the boob tube (The Hollywood Reporter)
- More people are using mobile devices to browse eCommerce sites – but they’re not always leaving as happy customers (Internet Retailing)
- How power is shifting back to content owners in an age of competing media devices and distribution models (Advertising Age)
- Meanwhile, Microsoft is busy beefing up its live streaming and VOD deals for its Xbox (Variety)
- Analyst claims iPhone sales could reach 107 million in 2012 (All Things D)
- How young is too young when it comes to kids hopping online? (Montreal Gazette)
- A glimpse inside the holiday toy race (North Jersey)
- Are young people willing to pay more for good content? (The New York Times)
- Study finds kids who stay up late watching TV and playing video games are more likely to be obese (Toronto Sun)
- Meanwhile, it looks like nighttime is prime time for engaging in all sorts of media (All Things D)
- Paramount restructures licensing ops as studios face plummeting DVD revenues (The Wrap)
- Sony stops footing the bill for 3D glasses. Will theatre chains stop showing 3D films? (L.A. Times)
- Attention all show creators – does this tortured writing process sound familiar? (Wired)
- One M.D. assesses the causes of the ADHD epidemic in US kids, sugar, processed foods, additives, TV, video games, Internet and cell phones DON’t make the list (Huffington Post)
- It’s here. The new Amazon Fire goes to the mat with the iPad (Wired)
- Why babies are the next great American consumers (AdWeek)
- When it comes to Halloween, the US retail market isn’t nearly as scary as we all thought (Advertising Age)
- A bankrupt Borders dishes over its IP to competitor Barnes & Noble (Businessweek)
- The RIM PlayBook takes a page from other underperforming tech devices, slashes prices significantly (Montreal Gazette)
- Have music video games left the living room? (Mashable)
- Hollywood turns to the public domain in search of its next big hit, cuts the royalty fat (New York Magazine)
- How studio pay TV deals are poised to change (Variety)
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