Bending Spoons, a company that buys and revitalizes stagnating tech companies, has agreed to purchase Eventbrite for about $500 million, a far cry from the $1.76 billion the company was worth when it ...

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — The Marines' Toys of Tots campaign is back for the 2025 holiday season! KARE 11 is proud to partner with the Marines as we collect toy donations at our studios in Golden Valley.

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that’s a ...

Every holiday season, the trendy toys sell out fast, so it’s always smart to buy the most in-demand ones early. That’s especially true in 2025, with prices and stock continuing to fluctuate after ...

Is the age of toys really over? That is the fateful question posed by the new teaser trailer for “Toy Story 5,” released by Pixar on Tuesday, which picks up on the familiar parenting conundrum about ...

This year has been marked by economic uncertainty for shoppers and businesses alike, with rapidly fluctuating tariffs impacting many industries’ supply chains—but few as acutely as the toy industry.

Competition is heating up, with Mattel and OpenAI expected to launch a product for kids this year. Kids have always played with and talked to stuffed animals. But now their toys can talk back, thanks ...

Sculptor James Akers just moved to Dallas from Virginia, and he brought his neon art with him. “I love to create with a hacked, DIY, electric aesthetic that aims to subvert the fine art finish fetish ...

I'm the baby and kids gear writer, a mom to three and former teacher. As gifting season begins, Amazon revealed their picks for the most popular toys of 2025. As a baby and kids writer and mom of ...

Pixar and Disney are welcoming fans back to Andy's room as "Toy Story" is returning to movie theaters soon. Pixar, an animation studio owned by Disney, announced the film's theatrical return in an X ...

Paul T. Riddle knows that he’s prone to shed a tear or two when the right moment strikes. He’s the first to admit he gets choked up during soft-hearted TV advertisements or when “Silent Night” comes ...