Peepshow Post, London and New York, has secured independent firm Stable 7 to handle sales representation and brand development on both coasts in the U.S. The West Coast representation effort on behalf of Peepshow will be headed by Stable 7 partner Meghan Lang in Los Angeles. Her Stable 7 counterpart on the East Coast is New York-based Susanne Kelly. The Stable 7 roster of clients also includes creative design studio Charlex, integrated creative studio The Science Project, design shop Transistor Studios, and digital design and media studio Tronic. Peepshow was launched in 2001 by editor Andrea MacArthur….Music/sound house Black Iris (which maintains indie label White Iris) has secured Lisa Houck’s independent rep firm Salon to handle the West Coast. Black Iris, headed by owner/executive producer Daron Hollowell, has studios in New York, Los Angeles and Virginia…Cinematographer Andrij Parekh has completed principal photography on Dan Algrant’s Greetings from Tim Buckley and is again available for commercials and feature films through The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica….
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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