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The season's traditional kickoff isn't quite here, but already some winners have emerged, from electronic book readers and hot pink netbooks to shimmery tops and the "snood," a hood-scarf hybrid that resembles a babushka. Overall spending, however, is...
Tags: ap retailers, retailers writer, Michael Londrigan, book readers, J.C. Penney Co., electronic book, New York City, Shoppers Drug Mart, Snood, Business Finance, S&P/TSX Composite Index, J. C. Penney, Etsy, Hasbro, Netbook, S&P/TSX 60 Index
David Gardner's top pick took an epic run of 1,334%! I just got a visit from the Ghost of Christmas Present, and boy, was he mad. A hot toy is threatening to dash toymakers' hopes this season, leaving nothing but coal in their shareholders' stockings.
Tags: Mattel, Hasbro, Zhu Zhu, zhu hamster, Alexandria, Fisher-Price, Hot Wheels, Furby, Business Finance, Tickle Me Elmo, Barbie
Staff Reporter/mhoulihan@suntimes.com Last year, Shari Sopourn was trying to find a way to teach her kids about the recent government bailout of financial institutions. In the process, she and her husband, Jordy, created Bailout!, a board game that is...
Tags: heart attack, Cook, Jenga, Jishaku, Hasbro, Games of physical skill, Board games, Combinatorial game theory
A revival of 1980s cartoon My Little Pony is being developed by Hasbro Studios for a new children’s cable channel by Discovery-Hasbro, reports Perez Hilton. This comes after the special My Little Pony: Twinkle Wish Adventure got high ratings on the Disney...
Tags: little pony, Los Angeles, Disney Channel Latin America, Disney Channel, My Little Pony, Hasbro, Entertainment Culture
If the Canadian Toy Testing Council rated everything kids play with, Tupperware would probably win every year, followed by pots and pans and my-finger-is-a-gun for boys. But there are no guns of any kind on the list of top toys chosen by children for...
Tags: Best Bets, Janet Hetherington, Canada, Toronto, Playskool, VTech, Hasbro, Human Interest, Webkinz, Playmobil, Toy
Monopoly City Streets launched yesterday, Wednesday September 9, but before the online game had barely begun overloaded servers brought the play to a virtual standstill. The much hyped venture, a collaboration between Hasbro and Google, drew more...
Tags: board game, Hasbro, using google, Monopoly City Streets, classic board, Google Maps
Shares of Hasbro /quotes/comstock/13*!has /quotes/nls/has ( 23.12 , +0.09 , +0.37% ) traded flat at $23.04 in midday trading Wednesday. Analysts' estimates vary on Transformer product sales for this year. Drew Crum at Stifel Nicolaus expects Hasbro to...
Tags: Hasbro, Transformers
Before he was elevated to CEO a year ago, Goldner was the main force behind Hasbro's strong push into Hollywood through the Transformers and G.I. Joe movies. "This development is further indication of the company's desire to become a diversified entertainment...
Tags: Hasbro, Discovery Communications, Discovery Form Children
This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on crossword board game Scrabble. But nearly half a year later, the official Scrabble...
Tags: scrabble, facebook, Mattel, Hasbro, Scrabble Facebook
Hasbro Inc. has dropped its lawsuit against the makers of a popular online version of board game Scrabble...District Court in New York, Hasbro dropped the lawsuit Friday. Hasbro, which owns the North American rights to the word game, sued Jayant and Rajat...
Tags: social networking, Hasbro, hasbro drops, Facebook, Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, vice president