• Are kids ready for ads in virtual worlds? (C/Net News)
• YouTube unveils new piracy control (CBC)
• Lucas readies Star Wars for TV (Entertainment Weekly)
• Disney to spend cool billion to re-energize California theme park (Wall Street Journal)
• AOL slashes 2,000 jobs (MediaPost Publications)
• Children’s Place on the block (CNN)
• Igglepiggle hot this Christmas (Daily Mail)
• Good Grief! Shultz was anything but carefree (New York Times)
• Behind the magic, new book takes hard look at Disney (Chicago Sun Times)
• ET phone home – The Game (Wired)
• Hard times for Weinsteins (New York Times)
• Pixar mouse still cooking overseas (Variety)
• US retail numbers a little better than expected (Forbes)
• Highly anticipated Wii game delayed (Wired)
• Chuck E. Cheese believes ‘self-regulating’ is the ticket (Broadcast Newsroom)
• IBM teams with Second Life (Information Week)
• More trouble for Mattel after shareholders sue (Reuters)
• Should we all be scared of Google? (Slate)
• Wal-Mart sales rise, profit forecast up (Reuters)
• Disney tackles the digital age (C/NET)
• BBC to shed 12% of its workforce (Financial Times)
• Wal-Mart’s new growth ops (BusinessWeek)
• Facebook friends? Comparing Wal-Mart and Target’s social networking skills (AdWeek)
• Nickelodeon faces the music, launches own ‘hit’ factory (AdAge)
• Nintendo to launch Wii fit game (Reuters)
• Christmas isn’t coming early to US retailers, despite the early onset of price wars (CNN Money)
• And they called it Muppet Love (YouTube)
• Sony re-jigging PS3 (C/NET News)
• Hello? Google. The Mega corp looks to phones (New York Times)
• Toys ‘R’ Us Asia removes China made products containing lead (Bloomberg)
• US lawmakers consider ban on lead paint in toys (USA Today)
• Exclusive Wal-Mart deal might back fire for Nintendo (1up.com)
• A look at Sony’s PS3 holiday campaign (Wired)
• Disney to build resort in Hawaii (BBC)
• Wal-Mart era wanes (Wall Street Journal)
• Microsoft turns to social networking for new Zune (PC World)
• Halo 3 rings up US$300 million in sales (Market Watch)
• US retailers come down with case of pre-holiday jitters in soft-spending market (MarketWatch from DowJones)…
• …Despite National Retail Federation’s prediction of holiday sales bump (National Retail Federation)
• Tween nation comes down with case of Mylie fever (Yahoo! News)
• Microsoft readies iPod competition (New York Times)
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