- Six new televisions that are signaling some interesting trends for this year (CNET)
- Young TV watchers, however, are still moving further away from the boob tube and closer to online viewing (The Wall Street Journal)
- Is a new niche market forming? Thanks to Google and Mozilla, 3D movies are now available online via YouTube (Techland)
- Kung Fu Panda 2 kicks off a record-breaking start in China (Variety)
- Are France, Belgium and Luxembourg feeding a European toon boom? (Variety)
- One CEO debunks theories that 25 is the peak age for entrepreneurship (TechCrunch)
- Wimpy Kid author opens up on his books’ film adaptations and his original intended audience…adults (BBC)
- Like Lego? Well, so does this guy (Wired)
- Worlds colliding? Facebook and Netflix in talks over video integration (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Dish Network’s first order of business for Blockbuster – slash movie rental prices (The Wall Street Journal)
- Sony confirms the development of a potentially less-expensive ‘Playstation 4’ (Techland)
- A behind-the-scenes look at how a children’s iPad app is made (Wired)
- His work with kids’ language cognition has led an MIT professor to launch a startup that syncs live TV with social-media chatter (Ad Age)
- Could mobile gaming be a real pain in the wrist for young kids? (CNET)
- New study finds kids don’t necessarily enjoy cartoon violence (The Daily Mail)
- Not so fast, Disney. The US Navy wants to cash in on SEAL Team 6 goods, too (The Hollywood Reporter)
- According to Wikia, Glee is tops in youth social engagement with Degrassi close behind (MediaPost)
- Confectioners on a sugar high as annual candy conference gets underway (AdAge)
- While weighing the offer from Liberty Media, Barnes & Noble unveils new Nook (Wall Street Journal)
- How do you get kids to learn? Have them draw butts on the iPad, of course (TechCrunch)
- Google to introduce a mobile payment system in the US, making impulse purchases just that much easier (New York Times)
- Surprised? Pirates of the Caribbean sails into the five-biggest worldwide opening weekends in movie history with US$346.4 million (The Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon now officially sells more eBooks than print books (Publishers Weekly)
- Apple, meanwhile, passes the half-billion mark in terms of approved apps (Techland)
- The debate over fast food and the lifespan of Ronald McDonald wages onward (Time)
- More kids than you think are getting their news, magazines on mobile devices (MediaShift)
- Liberty Media puts in US$1.02 billion bid for Barnes & Noble (The Wall Street Journal)
- Later to The Governator? Schwarzenegger’s animated series and his acting pursuits are put on indefinite hold (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The Hot Wheels marketing stunts continue – expect a world record to be broken at this year’s Indianapolis 500 (Adweek)
- More bad news on the high street, family retailer Mothercare to close 110 stores (Telegraph)
- With millions of underage users on Facebook, the social network now faces legal questions about kids and advertising (Ad Age)
- Ghost Hunters court decision signals a victory for TV show pitchers everywhere (Documentary Television)
- Today’s US government privacy hearing shines a light on kids’ mobile apps (Washington Post)
- Disney Stores get a lot more interactive in an effort to keep kids in-house as opposed to online (Los Angeles Times)
- The US government continues to crack down on the issue of mobile location privacy (CNET)
- The internet: A snow day killer? (Techland)
- New Nielsen study suggest only 5% of US consumers own a tablet device (TechCrunch)
- Cash is no longer king at 7,000 European McDonald’s as touch screen computers replace cashiers – and the idea of ‘service with a smile’ (MSNBC)
- One US Federal Trade Commission director talks online privacy and social networks (Ad Age)
- Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color – perceived as a ‘beginner’ tablet – has reached one million app downloads (TechCrunch)
- Latest Pirates of the Caribbean film to be released on a record-breaking 402 Imax screens (The Hollywood Reporter)
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