- Why media companies are feeling particularly shaken by an unstable stock market (Ad Age)
- They just keep getting younger…gadget-maker Vinci is launching a tablet aimed directly at babies (Fortune)
- In other tablet news, the price wars heat up (PC World)
- Eddie Murphy returns to the sound booth for the upcoming feature film Hong Kong Phooey (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Ex-Marvel Studio chair David Maisel advising on Angry Birds’ move to the big screen (Wall Street Journal)
- Even the turbulent stock market can’t stop Apple – the tech giant briefly eclipses Exxon Mobil as the most valuable US company (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The riots in Britain mean millions of losses for retailers (Reuters)
- Gaming company THQ lays off 200 after a disappointing quarter (Los Angeles Times)
- Why anyone with a creative impulse needs to be bored (Wall Street Journal)
- What Walmart’s been up to on the social media/data collecting front (TechCrunch)
- Survey says publishing industry is alive and well (The New York Times)
- Why Payless is getting more edgy with its girls’ lines (Kansas City Star)
- HIT sales rumor #252 surfaces – Mattel apparently back in the running as a buyer (Express)
- Rising ad sales the reason for Viacom’s booming profit (Bloomberg)
- Beauty is in the eye of the Nokia N8 camera, which Aardman Animations used to shoot a record-breaking short (Recombu)
- Surprise, surprise. American teens choose their all-time favorite vampire (CNN)
- Mattel to pay its rival MGA Entertainment US$310 million in damages, fees and other costs (Los Angeles Times)
- Meanwhile, the conflict between Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Animation wages on (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Are virtual goods no longer the object of gamers’ affection? (MediaPost)
- Why Untold Entertainment’s new web game, which was co-created by a five-year-old, is clicking with parents and kids (Joan Ganz Cooney Center)
- Are kids learning a ‘new literacy’ through playing video games? (The Globe and Mail)
- Today’s Harry Potter film debut in China will offer a glimpse into that crucial market’s box-office potential (Variety)
- Retailers are banking on stylish kids’ clothes to lure back-to-school shoppers (Reuters)
- Ways in which Google+ is shaping the real-time marketing world (Ad Age)
- China is no longer just counterfeiting products, it’s setting up fake retail outlets (The Wall Street Journal)
- Speaking of replicas, the UK prop designer for the original Star Wars sees victory over George Lucas in copyright case (BBC)
- Marvel and Disney, on the other hand, will retain copyright over the Marvel Universe for the foreseeable future (Law.com)
- Hackers-In-Training gather at the first annual DefCon Kids (CNET)
- A new study weighs whether new TV ads aimed at kids promote healthy eating (Los Angeles Times)
- Nielsen to start getting retail sales data from Walmart – for you non-number crunchers out there, that’s like being welcomed into Fort Knox (MediaPost)
- Paramount Pictures International is the first studio to cross the US$2 billion mark in 2011
- Don’t shoot the messenger, argues one columnist. Why TV is not to blame for kids’ lack of education (Telegraph)
- What’s old is new again at Nintendo (Washington Post)
- BBC launches its new iPlayer subscription service via an iPad app (Guardian)
- Sony goes big – and blue – in honor of The Smurfs blockbuster (The Wall Street Journal)
- Williams-Sonoma, owner of Pottery Barn Kids, makes its way into the UK market (The Independent)
- Amazon continues on Netflix’s trail by inking a new content agreement with Universal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Finalists announced for the Teletoon at Night Pilot Project contests (Playback Online)
- Losses at Nintendo prompt the gaming giant to slash 3DS prices (The New York Times)
- Despite growth within its film unit, Sony also sees falling sales (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Parenting with privacy? A new service invisibly monitors kids’ Facebook accounts (All Things D)
- Study concludes there are no cancer risks for kids using cellphones (CTV)
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