7 posts and columns on kid

Another Science Start-Up, Wittlebee, Gets $2.5 Million in Funding for Kids’ Clothes Club

in Commerce on April 4 at 9:00 am PT

It’s kind of like a never-ending online Gap.
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Meet Kid Robot, Kibot: The Full AsiaD Demo (Video)

in AsiaD on November 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm PT

It looks like a monkey, whose nose is an RFID reader, stomach is a control panel and ears are the navigational buttons. Would that my kids were that easy to control.
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Viral Video: "SpongeBob SquarePants" Gets to Keep Living in a Pineapple Under the Sea

in News on January 4, 2011 at 1:42 am PT

Nickelodeon has ordered up another season of its popular animated television series “SpongeBob SquarePants” for a ninth season. Yay! No, really–it is the only kids’ show I have been able to endure so far.

FamilyFinds: Discount Deals Site Aimed at Families Launches With $5.75 Million Funding

in News on December 1, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Even as Groupon is poised to sell itself to Google for badillions of dollars, the attack of the social buying clones continues. Today, it is the launch of FamilyFinds, a Santa Monica, Calif., start-up aimed at offering daily deals to families, with $5.75 million in funding to help it get going.

From the Department of the Obvious: Poll Finds Parents Are Worried About Privacy on Social Networks

in News on October 8, 2010 at 12:10 am PT

A national poll released today by Common Sense Media asking how well social networks protect kids online produced an answer that should come as a shock to exactly no one: Not very well, at least according to parents. A full 75 percent of them gave social networking sites such as Facebook a negative rating for the task.

Buying and Selling Among Friends

in The Mossberg Solution on March 3, 2009 at 4:28 pm PT

Gone are the days when giving away your old stuff involved getting in the car and hauling bags to the local Salvation Army. Now, with a little Web know-how, you can find a number of ways to turn your trash into someone else’s treasure.
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Disney Tries to Waddle Its Way to Digital Success

in News on August 7, 2007 at 4:18 am PT

After having just visited WeeWorld in London, an avatar-based site that allows mostly young people to create online personas for social networking and other activities around the Web, it was interesting to see Walt Disney last week forking over up to $700 million to own another popular social-networking site for “tweens” called Club Penguin. As [...]