Run a search for “hair salon” in your phone’s app store. Of the games that surface, how many feature an app icon that stars a white woman with long, flowing hair? If you came across any icons with a ...

If you haven’t heard of Toca Boca, you’re probably not hanging out much with the 6- to 9-year-old set. Since its 2010 founding, the Swedish game developer has created 39 app games for children, ...

Hey EdSurge readers. I’m back from vacation and ready with something fresh for your faces! You may know me for writing about educational games, but today I am writing about some apps that are not ...

Toca Boca, a hugely popular kids’ app maker, has grown to over 170 million downloads across its line of 38 apps, which 13 million children use every month. Now, the company is transitioning its brand ...

For years, children’s toys have been trapped in a binary, marketed towards girls or boys and specific races or ethnicities. Creating characters and experiences that showcase diversity has been quite ...

These are the best-designed apps and games of 2019 See the honorees of the 2019 Innovation by Design Awards in the Apps and Games category. Singapore Airlines has a plan to keep your kids occupied on ...

Children's apps is a fascinating space in 2013: lots of inventive and educational apps being released by big brands and indie studios alike, but big questions around how those developers make their ...

My 8-year-old daughter, Ava, went through a phase where she was obsessed with Toca Boca. Unless you have kids or are in the app business, you've probably never heard of Toca Boca. But the Swedish ...

Toca Boca’s games, which transform users into vets, city planners, hairdressers, chefs, scientists and more, have been downloaded more than 85m times around the world Toca Boca, the children's app ...