Even as Mattel Inc. posted better-than-expected quarterly earnings last week, the El Segundo-based toy maker conceded yet another disappointing quarter for the aging Barbie brand, Mattel’s biggest ...

You know the drill: games made for little kids are bad, games made for girls are bad, and games made for little girls are really, really bad. Very few of you guys ever bother to play games for kids or ...

OF ALL the forces against which resistance is futile, Barbie ranks right up near the top. Any poor innocent who assumed that this piece of anatomically challenged plastic, devised in 1959, had been ...

(CNN) --The creator of Barbie, the globe's most popular doll, died Saturday at the age of 85 in Los Angeles, California. Ruth Handler co-founded the Mattel toy company, but her biggest claim to fame ...