• Nick nestles into Nielsen’s top-10 sites by video streaming (Nielsen)
• Bob Iger continues to tinker with Team Disney (L.A. Times)
• A look at the social side of Consumer Electronics Show (MediaPost)
• Microsoft brings kid developer tool to the PC (CNet News)
• One man’s opinion on vidgame retailer GameStop (Motley Fool)
• Would your kids play with Computer Engineer Barbie? (Wired/GeekDad)
• Nintendo president states there’s no Wii successor launching anytime soon (Business Week)
• Disney’s Rich Ross tries to woo Summit’s Twilight guru (Los Angeles Times/Company Town)
• Games, fantasy and Avatar: Is the US a nation of escapists? (USA Today)
• All-natural Canuck company cleans up with kids licensing deals (Globe and Mail)
• Hallmark to release AR greeting cards (Kansas City Business Journal)
• An opinion on why kids like modern art (Wired/GeekDad)
• What’s the average development cost for video games today? (Develop-Online.net)
• Spider-Man film franchise set for a re-boot, Raimi, Maguire are out, teenage Spidey in (Bloomberg)
• China’s Shanda Games goes on buying spree in online gaming (paidcontent.org)
• Electronic Arts cuts profit outlook again (Wall Street Journal)
• UK same-store retail sales up 4.2% in December (Reuters UK)
• Nick Jr. enters Sesame territory with math-centric toon Team Umizoomi (New York Times)
• Marvel sues Kirby estate to nullify copyright claims over classic characters (L.A. Times)
• TV Everywhere industry collective feels the heat from critics (paidcontent.org)
• We wonder if MOMA’s curatorial staff knows about this He-Man fine art exhibit in L.A. (Wired)
• HandMade Films asks for suspension from UK’s AIM stock index (Guardian)
• Goldman Sachs says 3-D TV won’t live up to the hype (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft CEO Ballmer sketches out future of TV consumption at CES (AdAge)
• State-side Blu-ray sales shine in ’09, overall DVD market, however, slumps (L.A. Times)
• France’s Sarkozy mulls over search-engine tax to claw back content revenue lost to piracy (CNet)
• Nielsen investigates the types of online content consumers are willing to pay for (Nielsen)
• iPhone Apps: the 21st-century pacifier for toddlers? (CBC)
• 2010 – the year of ‘sublime creative destruction’ in the US home entertainment business (Wall Street Journal)
• Disney unveils portable content format KeyChest (Reuters)
• The future of gaming s here – Microsoft sets project Natal release date (BBC)
• Thor spears Spidey’s 2011 theatrical release date (Variety)
• Sony postpones production on Spider-Man 4 (Variety)
• Burnett’s latest reality show putting too much pressure on kid contestants? (New York Times)
US consumers still renting DVDs, but sales are down 13.7% (L.A. Times)
• 20 retail ideas worth stealing (National Retail Federation)
• TV making a ‘lot more goofy and fun’ than films, says George Lucas (MTV)
• Discovery/Sony/Imax rumored to launch 3-D channel State-side (Multichannel News)
• iPod ranks as top social media brand, Disney comes in second (MediaPost)
• 10 trends in eco-friendly cause marketing to watch in 2010 (AdAge)
• YA author John Green takes a look at the future of reading (School Library Journal)
• Traffic up 33% for US toy retailers online over holiday season (Internet Retailer)
• Trends to watch at Consumer Electronics Show 2010 (CNN)
• A look ahead at the next 12 months in marketing to teens and tweens (MediaPost)
• Australian retail sales surge on strong Christmas season (The Australian)
• Sales at European retailers spike in December (BusinessWeek)
• Are Zhu Zhu Pets more of a craze among parents than kids? (Los Angeles Times)
• The top 2009 social trends for Moms (Mashable)
• And the top-10 video game stories of the year (VentureBeat)
• How smart is Baby Einstein, really? (Philadelphia Inquirer)
• Standard & Poor’s lessens Disney downgrade risk (Wall Street Journal)
• What it’s like to live inside the Lego house (Neatorama)
• 10 things parents should know about Avatar (Wired/GeekDad)
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