Trend Segment: ‘Games & Toys’ 
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Media & Technology Come Together at 2012 CES
The Consumer Electronics Show, held at Las Vegas Convention Center boasts 140,000 registrants. GrapevineStar Media reviews What’s Hot and Different at 2012 CES?
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Media Branding Alert – The Case for Renaming ‘Gaming’
From marketing VPs to moms and far too many others, “gaming” has a bad rap. It’s a multi-billion dollar industry capable of influencing business strategies, education and society itself. But could simply giving it a clever new name be all that’s needed to win game theory the business cred it deserves?
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GrapevineStar Media & Brands Salutes DeViantArt.com
The world’s largest online art community
Proudly showing 180 million pieces of art to over 18 million artists and art appreciators
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Gaming Trend Alert – Location-Based Gaming Presents Great Ad Opportunities
Two huge trends have swept the mobile marketplace over the past few years: mobile gaming and location-based social networking. Between 70% and 80% of all mobile downloads are games, and 72.8 million people in the U.S. will play games on their mobile devices this year.
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Happy New Year! and Thank You for a Great 2011
GrapevineStar, takes this time, the first day of 2012 to Thank the visitors and viewers of GrapevineStar’s media and brand networks. We want to thank for all of your positive comments regarding our content. We look forward to making the GrapevineStar network even better and bigger in 2012.
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GrapevineStar Media Trend Alert – Launchfest at CES, Social Media & Mobile Trends
Meet over 1000 business executives and decision makers from consumer electronics, media, mobile, entertainment, sustainable ventures, advertising, technology, digital media, law, finance, blogging, banking, investing, marketing, web services, web applications, and retail.
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Social Media Analysts Trend Alert – Ten Mobile Social Trends For 2012
How prepared are you for the mobile social tidal wave, tsunami, hurricane, and Bieberquake that will hit us in 2012?
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GrapevineStar Gaming Trends Alert – Big Fish Games® Launches Play Instantly! – The First Cloud Gaming Service for Mobile Devices
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GrapevineStar Media Event Alert – CES, The Innovation Event for Technology, Entertainment and Media
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade association promoting growth in the $190 billion U.S. consumer electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research, technical training and education, industry promotion, standards development and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA also owns and produces the International CES – The Global Stage for Innovation.
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GrapevineStar Trend Alert – Digital Gaming Companies Continue to Find Investors
A List Games has raised $9.3 million in a second round of seed funding so that it can continue to market games via digital distribution, the company announced today.
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GrapevineStar Trend Alert – Survey: YouTube Is The Most Powerful Social Brand Among Teenagers
In a survey that was conducted by Harris Interactive earlier this month among American teenagers ages 13-24, one of the most surprising findings revealed that the most powerful or in their words, the brand with most equity in social media is actually YouTube, and not Facebook.
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Korean and China Online Gaming Giants in Alliance
Two major Asian online game companies are forming an alliance. South Korea’s Nexon (recently relocated to Japan) and China’s Perfect World are teaming up with a joint venture to manage and operate online games in Korea.
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GrapevineStar Videogame Trend Alert – Video Game Industry Adding 2-17 yr old Gamers at High Rate
According to Kids and Gaming 2011, the latest report from leading market research company, The NPD Group, since 2009, the population growth of kids ages 2-17 increased 1.54 percent in the U.S., while the gaming population of that age group has grown 12.68 percent. Learn More…
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GrapevineStar Video Game Alert – Activision and EA Prepare for War
Just two weeks apart, the two companies are releasing major sequels of games where players shoot weapons through the perspective of on-screen characters. EA is coming out with “Battlefield 3″ on October 25; Activision’s “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ hits store shelves on November 8.
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GrapevineStar Entertainment Trend Alert – Japanese Entertainment Industry Update
The Japanese entertainment industry as a whole is in a period of transition. As the average age of the population continues to rise, the majority demographic is pulling farther away from the youth-based content that’s driven the industry’s domestic markets in the past. In addition to adapting to an older audience’s demands, industries are also refining their relationships abroad and developing stable means of overseas distribution
