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ReThink Review: Battleship: Interplanetary War on Human Eardrums

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.18.2012

Read More: Gregory D. Gadson, Movie Reviews, Taylor Kitsch, Tadanobu Asano, Rihanna, Battleship, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgard, Hasbro, Brooklyn Decker, Rethink Reviews, Navy, Sound Design, Jonathan Kim, Hamish Linklater, Video, Entertainment News

Battleship succeeds in being big, dumb, and extremely loud, and after The Avengers, we should all be expecting a lot more.

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The Hungry Hungry Hippos Games

Laurence Hughes | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Book News, Peeta, Haymitch, Milton Bradley, Board Games, Hungry Hungry Hippos, Katniss, District 12, The Hunger Games, Hasbro, Battleship, Humor, Parody, Comedy News

The movie The Hunger Games has inspired a number of mash-ups that mix the film with a certain children's game. It's time the meme was extended to the original novel.

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Toy Company To Make Millions Off 'Battleship' Movie

Reuters | Posted 05.04.2012

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* "Battleship," "G.I. Joe" hit theaters this summer * "Transformers" movies generated $1.6 bln in toy sales * Hasbro spe...

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Giddy Up! My Little Pony Rides Into Los Angeles

Susan Michals | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Hasbro, My Little Pony, Mark Mothersbaugh, Art News, Perez Hilton, Hello Kitty, Picasso, Give Kids the World, Los Angeles Art Exhibits, Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Art Show, Arts News

My Little Pony, the doe-eyed, sweet little pinnacle of sexually ambiguous innocence, will be the center of attention at Hasbro's MY LITTLE PONY Project 2012, a charity art exhibition.

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From Candy Land To Monopoly: Board Games Getting Movie Buzz

The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.13.2012

"Battleship," Peter Berg's sci-fi naval war adventure, is loosely based on the beloved Hasbro game of the same name. Well, actually, the film has very...

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Netflix Adds Some Major Saturday Morning Cartoons

The Huffington Post | Jason Gilbert | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Gi Joe Netflix, My Little Pony, Video, Transformers Prime, Transformers Netflix, Netflix Cartoons, My Little Pony Netflix, GI Joe, Netflix Hasbro, Hasbro, Transformers, Netflix, New Netflix Shows, New Netflix Cartoons, Netflix News, Technology News

It' Saturday morning! Pour some cereal into your favorite bowl and gather 'round the television to watch some...Netflix? The online movie and telev...

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'Bronies': Teen Boys Who Love My Little Ponies

The Wall Street Journal | Vauhini Vara and Ann Zimmerman | Posted 01.04.2012

Read More: Hasbro, Bronies, My Little Pony, 4chan, Fun Stuff, Teen Boys, High School News, High School News

15 young men in this hotbed of activism gathered at an Indian restaurant on a recent Sunday and made an appeal: Could the waiter please switch the TV ...

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Hasbro Turns Over a New Leaf, Steps Up For Rainforests

Philip Radford | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: Environment, Green, Sustainability, Green News, Hasbro, Mattel, Deforestation-Asia, Deforestation, Green News

Until Asia Pulp & Paper cleans up its act, Greenpeace will make sure more and more companies join Hasbro in setting high standards to ensure the paper they use is not wiping away rainforests.

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Hasbro My3D Device Promises 3D On iPod

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, My3D Iphone, Ipod, Hasbro My3D, 3d Ipod, My3D Ipod, 3d Iphone, Hasbro, my3d, Technology News

NEW YORK — Hasbro Inc. is betting that iPod and iPhone users want 3-D viewing on the go. The nation's second-largest toy maker is set to unveil...

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Immigration Insider | Election Day: Dirty Dozen, March to the Polls

Frank Sharry | Posted 05.25.2011

Check out America's Voice’s new weekly resource, "Immigration Insider," which takes an in-depth look at immigration politics. SUBSCRIBE to recei...

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DO NOT PASS 'GO': Sharron Angle Gets Cease And Desist Letter From Hasbro

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elections 2010, Copyright Infringement, Harry Reid, Nevada Senate Election, Nevada Senate 2010, Nevada Senate Race, Hasbro, Cease and Desist Letter, Nevada Senate, Harry Reid Amnesty Game, Sharron Angle Nevada Senate, Intellectual Property, Sharron Angle, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Toymaker Hasbro has sent Sharron Angle's Senate campaign a cease and desist letter, saying the Nevada Republican never received permissi...

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12 Famous Companies' Surprising Beginnings

Wallet Pop | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ferrari, Nintendo, Nokia, Company Origins, Hasbro, Tiffany, Dupont, Sony, Corning, Famous Companies, John Deere, Gucci, Abercrombie & Fitch, Ibm, Business News

Quick, when you think of Nokia, what immediately comes to mind? Cell phones, right? Most of us would be surprised to know that Nokia didn't start out ...

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Nurses Make a House Call

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gap Inc., Goldman Sachs, Meg Whitman, Rose Ann DeMoro, Labor Union, National Nurses United, Nurses, Stride Rite, Jerry Brown, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ebay, Hasbro, California Nurses Association, Atherton, Meg Whitman Protest, Nurses Whitman, Politics News

Meg Whitman has made attacks on unions, and particularly the California Nurses Association, a centerpiece of her campaign against Jerry Brown. But now California nurses are taking a stand -- on her doorstep.

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Official Scrabble Rules NOT Changing

AP | MAE ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books News, Scrabble Trickster, Reading, Scrabble Rules, Scrabble U.K., Scrabble, Crosswords, Proper Nouns, Books, Scrabble U.S., Hasbro, Mattel, Books News

NEW YORK — Scrabble purists can relax. News of a new version of the classic word game that Mattel plans to sell in the U.K. allowing proper noun...

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New Monopoly Board: Credit Cards Replace Money, Boards Get Circular In 'Revolutions'

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monopoly, Hasbro, Monopoly-Board-Game, Toy Fair, Monopoly Money, Poll, Business News

Monopoly, which turns 75 this year, is celebrating with a modern redesign. The game's anniversary edition, which features a circular board, elimina...

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Ralph Anspach: Monopoly Game's Creator Spent Decades Fighting Corporate Owner

Wall Street Journal | MARY PILON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monopoly History, Economics, UC Berkeley, Monopoly, Origins, History of Monopoly, Ralph Anspach, Great Depression, Monopoly Game, Landlord's Game, Monopoly Board Game, Hasbro, Supreme Court, Elizabeth Magie, Economist, Professor Anspach, Parker Brothers, Home News

Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign den...

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The Long, Slow Death of American Triumphalism

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hasbro, Transformers, G.I. Joe:the Rise of Cobra, G.I. Joe, War Games, Iraq War, Vietnam, Iron Man, Aghanistan War, World War Two, Politics News

Hollywood's products still rule the globe. Yet, in that international arena, American-style war, as in Iraq or Afghanistan, is a complete turn-off and real-world all-American triumph just doesn't fly anymore.

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Disney Inks Deal with Hulu: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer May 1, 2009

Shelly Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Espn, Microsoft, Sumner Redstone, Mediabytes, Discovery Communications, Windows 7, Shelly Palmer, Hasbro, Nbcuu, Abc, Media News, Fox, Hulu, Disney, Comcast, Viacom, Nbc, Media News

Disney has officially become an equity-owning partner in NBCU-Fox venture Hulu.

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Discovery Kids To Be Renamed, Branded With Hasbro

Los Angeles Times | Joe Flint | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a deal that will surely make activist groups froth and may have rivals looking over their shoulders, Discovery Communications Inc. and Hasbro Inc. ...

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Great Games for Christmas: The Economy Edition!

Jilly Gagnon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Holidays, Chutes and Ladders, Humor, Board Games, Satire, Economy, Christmas, Hasbro, Monopoly, The Game of Life, Candyland, Guess Who, Clue, Life, Milton Bradley, Style News

Great game for Christmas? Clue. I know who did it! It was Pastor Warren, in the chapel, with the lead pipe! Oh....OH, oh my god. Kids, turn away! That is NOT a marriage!

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So Long, Scrabulous! Hasbro/Scrabble Wins

CNET, ReadWriteWeb, Facebook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scrabulous Down, Scrabulous Dead, Scrabble, Scrabulous Offline, Scrabulous Gone, Facebook, Hasbro, Scrabulous, Facebook Scrabble, Scrabulous Taken Down, Scrabulous Lawsuit, Scrabulous Sued, Jayant Agarwall, Rajat and Jayant Agarwall, Rajat Agarwall, Business News

What's a nine-letter word for copyright? Well, er: C-O-P-Y-R-I-G-H-T. The popular Facebook application Scrabulous, a word-making board game that qu...

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What Businesses Can Learn From Scrabulous

Technology Evangelist | Ed Kohler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Scrabulous Creators, Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, Mattle, Scrabble, Realnetworks, Save Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, Facebook, Scrabulous, Hasbro, Business News

Scrabulous, as the New York Times reported this weekend, is spreading like wildfire within Facebook. People who were logging into their Facebook accou...

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Hasbro's Monopoly "World Edition" Gets Caught In Jerusalem Feud

MSNBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monopoly, Monopoly World Edition, Hasbro Monopoly, Hasbro, Business News

Monopoly, the iconic game of capitalism, has been drawn into the dispute over Jerusalem. Hasbro Inc. issued an apology Thursday after an employee, re...

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Pink Slip Alert: Have You Lost Your Job Today?

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Yucca Mountain, Chicago Sun-Times, Mcgraw-Hill, Martha Stewart Omnimedia, WGA Strike, Warner Bros, Hasbro, Business News

Th-th-th-that's All Folks: Warner Bros announced that because of the WGA Strike, up to 1,000 employees would be getting WARN mailings, which are essen...

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Hasbro Tries To Shut Down "Scrabulous"

Fortune | Josh Quittner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rajat Agarwalla, Jayant Agarwalla, Scrabble, Facebook Games, Facebook, Hasbro, Scrabulous, Ea, Business News

I can't tell if Hasbro (HAS), the maker of Scrabble, is the smartest company in the world or the dumbest. Over 100 million sets of the game have been ...

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