Every year on June 6, we celebrate National Yo-Yo Day. It coincides with the birthday of Chicago businessman Donald F. Duncan Sr, who in the 1930s, got into the yo-yo business. Yo-Yo was first sold in ...

June 6 marks National Yo-Yo Day, a celebration of one of the world's oldest and most enduring toys. The date honors the birthday of Donald F. Duncan Sr., the entrepreneur who helped turn the yo-yo ...

Today marks the launch of YoYo.com, a site that promises to make toy-shopping, a venture that often falls short lost in the maze of big-box toy stores, a happy experience. YoYo.com is the fourth ...

It’s happened again. Two weeks ago, Brayden Daher, a 5-year-old boy from Bellevue, Wash., was nearly strangled when he got a Yo-Yo Water Ball wrapped around his neck. Subscribe to read this story ...

You’d better sit down for this. Sitting? OK. It’s time to start your Christmas shopping. Brought to you by Quidisi, parent company of such notable online retail outlets as Diapers.com, Soap.com and ...

It’s Pi day! So what better way to celebrate than with games that involve the math of circles? On this most circular of days, we present three classic toys — hula hoops, yo-yo’s and Connect Four — and ...

Amazon-owned Quidsi has already made a name for itself with specialized online markets for diapers, toiletries and pet supplies. The next market it’s tackling is toys with the launch of the aptly ...

If you measure a city by the number of its Chicago icons, this could be Windy City West. For what other town in Oklahoma–or anywhere else for that matter–can boast that it is home to a Frank Lloyd ...

TRENTON -- Attorney General Anne Milgram has a new target: yo-yos. The state has sued an Indiana company for selling illegal yo-yo waterballs -- a toy with a liquid-filled rubber ball attached to a ...

CLEVELAND — An Ohio toy company known for its yo-yos is marking 90 years in operation and plans to celebrate with a yo-yoing contest and other events in Cleveland next month. Cleveland.com reports ...

If I say I bought a “yo-yo,” you might visualize a couple of different items. To a toy collector, a “yo-yo” is a pair of bulbous discs with a string wrapped in the center. But if I say “yo-yo” to a ...