• Google and Nintendo team up for search-engine game (PC World)
• UK 12-year-old racks up US$1,400 debt on Farmville (Mashable)
• Indonesia, the next retail hot spot for brands? (The Wall Street Journal)
• The 3-D generation gap (BusinessWeek)
• Retailers get on iPad bandwagon – The Gap unveils an iApp (Clickz)
• Hooked on a feeling – Most kids will use touch-screen PCs by 2015 (Mashable)
• Yoda for laughs – Lucasfilm developing a Star Wars comedy series (L.A. Times)
• Sony works to recapture its video game marketing mojo (Industry Gamers)
• Hasbro’s Brian Goldner made US$7.8 million last year (San Francisco Chronicle)
• Disney, Zemeckis team up for new underwater family franchise (Variety)
• Hearst to develop teen-mag hub around Seventeen.com (MediaWeek)
• Advertisers enter 3-D realm (BrandWeek)
• Hop on Pop – Dr. Seuss comes to the iPad (Mashable)
• Social game creator forges deal with Universal Music, including Lady Gaga, Rihanna (TechCrunch)
• MGA sued by Aussie toyco Funtastic over Bratz shipments (HeraldSun)
• Product integration hits new heights on US primetime programming (The Hollywood Reporter)
• Disney pulls out all the stops for Tron‘s viral campaign (Comic Book Movie)
• UK-based kids retailer Mothercare bullish on out-of-country opportunities (Reuters)
• The iPad, ridiculous or revolutionary? (The New York Times)
• Hulu generates US$100 million in 2009, achieves profitability (paidcontent.org)
• Smartphones, handheld devices sparking a transformation in kids’ education (Fast Company)
• US consumer show signs of wanting to shop again (Financial Times)
• Vidgame maker Activision quietly restructures senior management ranks (L.A. Times)
• Stephenie Meyer to release Twilight spin-off novella (BBC)
• Walmart enters sustainable toy market (BusinessWeek)
• Tiny tyrannical leanings? Four- to seven-year-olds exert control over ‘personal domain’ (The Globe & Mail)
• The Sims creator Will Wright, Albie Hecht teaming up for DIY TV series (IGN)
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