Hollywood-based Über content has secured director Eliot Rausch for U.S. commercial representation. Recognized for his visual and editorial storytelling as well as a penchant for capturing real people, Rausch has to his credit ad campaigns for such clients as FUELtv and Bud Light. Before signing with Über content, Rausch described himself as “a one man band wearing several hats–working as producer/director/editor for an array of different clients” via his own production company Phos Pictures. He began his career as an editor and then as a motion designer working with clients such as Motorola, Cisco, Fox Sports, MTV, Nintendo, Boost Mobile, Red Bull, and NBC. Seizing an opportunity from FUELtv to also direct some of the projects he was editing, Rausch was able to finally bring all of his filmmaking talents to bear. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary, 8 Lives (working title), and hopes to have it completed for the 2011 festival circuit….Margaret Johnson, Christian Haas, and Erik Vervroegen have been promoted to executive creative directors at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco. They join Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman, who were named executive creative directors earlier this year….
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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