July 23, 2010

• Rumors heighten about Disney’s acquisition of social gaming startup Playdom (TechCrunch)

• Taking a digital leap forward, India unveils a US $35 low-cost computer for students (CNN)

• Educational technology helps boost Scholastic revenue, more expansions in e-books underway (Bloomberg Businessweek)

• A closer look at the slow death of the CD (CNN)

July 22, 2010

• Facebook reaches 500 million users and new levels in social apps (Venture Beat)

• Major League Baseball teams with Michelle Obama in her Let’s Move campaign against childhood obesity (The New York Times)

• Pixar lends a felt hand to Disney’s upcoming Muppets movie (The Hollywood Reporter)

• A skeptic’s look at the ongoing junk food-cartoon character debate (The New York Times Blog)

July 21, 2010

• LAEDC predicts uptick in Hollywood TV/Film jobs next year (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Netflix takes its first trip outside the US (Mashable)

• How TV shows, and not films, have managed to break gender stereotypes (Ottawa Citizen)

• Why the best poems for kids aren’t necessarily the sweet ones (Slate)

July 20, 2010

• Taking a tip from Google – US nets starting to engage in contextual advertising driven by algorithms (Variety)

• Girl characters starting to get more TV time, not so in Hollywood (ABC News)

• Franchise-hopeful studios spare no marketing expense at Comic-Con (Variety)

• Tweeting from the womb? Kickbee activity monitor lets babies do just that (Inhabitots)

July 19, 2010

• Newspaper owner Richard Desmond leads US$150-million buyout for UK’s Five network (Telegraph)

• Can, and should, Dreamworks stay independent? (The New York Times)

• Target takes a piece of the denim diaper craze (Ad Age)

• A closer look at the best kid-friendly iPad apps (Tech Radar)

July 16, 2010

• Disney unveils plans for live-action Tinker Bell movie (Variety)

• UK toyco Martin Yaffe enters administration (Manchester Evening News)

• Weighing the pros and cons of kids online shopping (Bloomberg Businessweek)

• Justin Bieber breaks YouTube all-time record with 245,746,720 views (Mashable)

July 15, 2010

• Conjuring tweets – Disney expands paid Twitter campaign for Sorcerer’s Apprentice (AdAge)

• Something TV animators have known all along – How Illumination created Despicable Me‘s engaging content on a non-Hollywood budget (Wall Street Journal)

• Retailers expected to go all in for back-to-school marketing campaigns (Media Post)

• Bratz maker MGA facing a lawsuit for unpaid legal fees (Law.com)

• Will teen-focused Alloy Entertainment’s new online slate bring in digital dollars? (Tube Filter)

• Twilight fans invade dentist offices seeking vampire veneers (Time)

July 14, 2010

• Disney called in Pixar animators to beef up Tron script (Entertainment Weekly)

• American Eagle looks to cash in with new kids stores (The Wall Street Journal)

• Kmart adds online user-submitted video game reviews to retail shopping experience (Mashable)

• A close look at how ESPN is becoming a fully realized 3-D destination (Wired)

July 13, 2010

• Consumer products companies brace for the end of cheap ‘made in China’ era (Associated Press)

• The changing face of US moms – they’re older, wiser, more green (MediaPost)

• Tween girls to Miley: You’re acting too grown up, we’re totes breaking up with you (New York Times)

• Study finds Canadian teens spending seven hours a day at their computers or TVs (The Globe and Mail)

July 12, 2010

• First Uni/Illumination Entertainment animated outing Despicable Me outperforms box office expectations (Variety)

• Rumor has it Google’s investing more than US $100 million in new Google Games portal (Tech Crunch)

• Despite store cleanups, WalMart brings back the clutter (Ad Age)

• Strawberry Shortcake doll brings a dose of wholesomeness to this year’s Comic Con (The New York Times)

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