• FTC subpoenas 48 companies marketing foods to kids in the US (AdAge)
• Children’s author and illustrator Lane Smith explores the merits of a printed book in a digital world (Wall Street Journal)
• After weeks of posturing Disney, Time Warner reach a cable carriage deal (L.A. Times)
• Retail sales in Eurozone higher than expected (Wall Street Journal)
• 10 obscure superheroes who deserve a movie? You decide (GeekDad)
• Scholastic revamps its in-school book sales marketing efforts (New York Times)
• In case you hadn’t heard, Apple’s trying the TV thing again (Wall Street Journal)
• The complicated race to the top of Warner Bros. (The Hollywood Reporter)
• The dog ate my iPad? One school gives the Apple device to each of its students (Forbes)
• Why the growing crop of indie game developers is a very good thing (Wired)
• Disney turns its back on Hollywood’s Annie Awards (Variety)
• Wall Street tells investors to look out for toy companies (Businessweek)
• Apple and Disney inch closer to TV show rental deal (Wall Street Journal)
• Edward Cullen, the US$2 billion man, er, vampire? (The Hollywood Reporter)
http://mashable.com/2010/08/24/i-woo-you/ • MTV gets to first base in social gaming, creates dating game based around its TV shows (Mashable)
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-ct-disney-insider-20100824,0,5493585.story • Suspect pleads guilty in Disney securities fraud scheme (L.A. Times)
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-sonys-patience-with-crackle-persists-playstation-expansion-in-the-works/ • Sony plugs away at online video site Crackle, despite absence of a pay-day (PaidContent)
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118023220.html?categoryid=13&cs=1 • 3-D movies steal the show at the summer box office (Variety)
• MTV gets to first base in social gaming, creates dating game based around its TV shows (Mashable)
• Suspect pleads guilty in Disney securities fraud scheme (L.A. Times)
• Sony plugs away at online video site Crackle, despite absence of a pay-day (PaidContent)
• 3-D movies steal the show at the summer box office (Variety)
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