SAN FRANCISCO — In just a few short years, this little Swedish company, Toca Boca ... some 28 characters go out to eat, to the barber and to work, in the city, while players dress and feed ...

Unless you have kids or are in the app business, you've probably never heard of Toca Boca. But the Swedish developer makes apps that lets children do simple things to animated characters ...

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Toca Boca doesn’t have that luxury — instead, it’s built its own range of characters from scratch. But that’s actually been a good thing, reckons Jeffery. “We had a lot of experience of ...

Toca Boca’s goal is to subvert these tired tropes. “Kids compare themselves to the characters they see in the media,” Ingeborn said. “They learn what is acceptable and important through ...

But one mobile-first kids brand has made narrative and character diversity a priority in the development of its apps. Toca Boca recently announced the release of its 34th app, Toca Life ...

Some of the characters that are most popular among users in the games, for example, were not the same ones that kids were most drawn to on shirts or backpacks. [Photo: courtesy Toca Boca] The team ...

Kid-oriented games from Toca Boca Studios have topped 1 billion downloads in its 13th year, said the Stockholm-based developer’s owner, toymaker Spin Master. “This milestone is a huge ...

chief executive of Toca Boca, in an interview with VentureBeat. Today’s release is a play on the company’s most popular app, Hair Salon. Instead of the traditional characters, children will be ...

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 ...