December 1, 2008

• Holiday shopping lures in cautious customers (Wall Street Journal)

• A Black Friday media and retail analysis… (New York Times)

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…and hopes for Cyber Monday sales to boost flat e-commerce biz (Associated Press)

• How game developers handle game launches (Kotaku)

November 28, 2008

• Disney theme park visitors expect more interaction because of video games (CBS News)

• WALL-E DVD tops sales charts (The Hollywood Reporter)

• A Q&A with Toys ‘R’ Us CEO (Business Week)

• FAO’s Muppet Whatnot Workshop gets things started with sales 125% above projections (United Press International)

• Batman not dead, just gone for a while (New York Daily News)

• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: A History (Time)

November 27, 2008

• RDF agrees to US$80 million buyout

• Americans choose staying home over costly vacations for Thanskgiving (Associated Press)

• Build a LEGO turkey for Thanksgiving (Wired)

• Woolworths enters administration, 30,000 jobs now at risk (Bloomberg)

• The end of the Caped Crusader? (The Daily Mirror)

November 26, 2008

• Borders posts Q3 loss and revenue drop (Wall Street Journal)

• BBC Worldwide to snap up 2Entertain from faltering Woolies (Bloomberg)

• Showbiz braces for a rough holiday (Variety)

• US online sales suffer in November (AdAge)

• A rundown on toy retail trends heading into the holiday home stretch (The Motley Fool)

• Mothers sacrifice own spending to buy gifts for kids (New York Times)

• Lawmakers want chemical-laden toys off the shelves (USA Today)

November 25, 2008

• Informercials replace Saturday morning kids block on Fox (Variety)

• American youth trail behind other countries in Internet use (Reuters)

• Blockbuster goes head-to-head with Netflix, Apple and Amazon with new on-demand service (Dallas Morning News)

• Parents look to retro toys in tough times (Associated Press)

November 24, 2008

• Walmart CEO steps down (Retailing Today)

• Twilight outshines Bolt at box office (New York Times)

• Woolies faces closure (The Guardian)

• Weinstein Company lays off staff (Variety)

November 21, 2008

• Animation Oscar watch (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Tough Q3 for Barnes and Noble (Associated Press)

• Twilight reviewed (Time)

• Majesco responds to PETA’s attack on Cooking Mama (CasualGaming)

November 20, 2008

• Twilight and Bolt set to duke it out at the box office (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Bargain-hunting clouds shoppers’ minds (New York Times)

• McDonald’s woos moms with healthy kids menu (Washington Post)

• Gamestop sales on the rise in Q3 (GameDaily)

November 19, 2008

• The price that’s right for Jakks Pacific (Yahoo! Biz)

• Avatar face-off: Nintendo VS Microsoft (Wired)

• Disney and Imax go 3-D (The Hollywood Reporter)

• Is the UK all malled out? (Financial Times)

November 18, 2008

• Yahoo chief steps down (New York Times)

• The price war is on between Target and Walmart (CNNMoney.com)

• Twilight‘s popularity sheds light on dark genre for young readers (Publishers Weekly)

• Steve & Barry’s set to close again (Wall Street Journal)

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