The University of California is suing Facebook, alleging infringment on four patents that enable Internet browsers to host embedded interactive applications. Facebook, along with Wal-Mart and the Walt Disney Company, were sued in ...
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USA-Pro sound,lighting and staging professionals from around the world will converge with the music instrument and product industry at the 2013 NAMM Show,which runs 24-27 January at the Anaheim Convention Center.Hundreds of pro sound and ...
In an effort to improve how MongoDB supplies its data to external applications, MongoDB keeper 10gen has extended the open source data store's query language, providing developers with more sophisticated ways to extract and transform data. ...
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With its popularity growing, Apache's Cassandra database for high-volume, real-time data management will be fitted with technical and query language improvements in the fall. The open source NoSQL database, which reached the 1.0 release ...
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Disney rocked the world this week by announcing it will acquire Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion – AND release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015. The entertainment giant has come a very long way since its 1928 black and white Mickey Mouse film ...
One of the toy industry’s most endearing qualities is its many stories of enterprising individuals from humble origins who achieve spectacular success. We all know of people. From manufacturers and distributors to retailers and ...
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Global ICT leaders will gather to discuss topics including the ‘radical transformation of the ICT industry’ at this year’s ITU Telecom World 2012, opening in Dubai next month. The event is staged for 14-18 October, and ...
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It seems that not a day goes without an email popping in to my inbox from a supermarket or national chain advertising a toy sale. Of course, toys aren’t a grocer’s core market, and driving footfall via any temporary deal or ...
Tags: asda, disney, dominic sacco, grocers, retail, supermarkets, toynews blog
Kids have never had it so good. It wasn’t that long ago when children’s TV scheduling was limited to post-school and early weekend viewing. Now the wealth of child-focused TV stations has created an environment where young ...
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Mattel 01628 500 000 Mattel had two of the top five family games last year, according to NPD December 2011 data, and Uno was the number one card game. This season it has a number of fresh products, including Chameleon Crunch, which ...
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The Fall/Winter 2013/2014 Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA Textile) took place October 22-24, 2012 at the California Market Center (CMC) with a solid flow of traffic that included an array of prominent designers, manufacturers, ...
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Disney has hundreds of licensing partnerships in place across Europe and toy sales for its big IPs are climbing. With huge films like Planes and Monsters University on the way, the opportunities for toy firms are bountiful. Anna ...
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“Licensing provides a route for retailers to both differentiate themselves from their competition and to reinvigorate product categories,” says Jessica Blue, event director of Brand Licensing Europe. “Licensing is becoming ...
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VTech has signed a deal with Disney that will see new content arrive on the InnoTab 2 and Storio 2. This will include e-books and videos of popular episodes of Disney Junior’s Jake and the Never Land Pirates, Little Einsteins, Doc ...
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New social channels and the explosion of video content have opened up doors for brands to own the conversation with their audience and bypass traditional gatekeepers (and in the process save millions of dollars in ad spend). goviral ...
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