Coral Garvey has come aboard Havas Worldwide’s NY office as head of art. She will report to Jason Musante, managing director and group executive creative director of Havas Worldwide NY. Previously, Garvey served as design director at Silver&Partners and throughout her career has worked with marquee brands such as Kate Spade, Nike, Motorola, Ben and Jerry’s, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Sephora, Levi’s, adidas and Google. Garvey was also one of Anomaly NY’s first creative hires. Her career highlights include serving as lead designer on the Converse brand re-launch and Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Be Stupid” campaign for Diesel….Entertainment branding and marketing innovations agency Troika, headed by founder/CEO Dan Pappalardo, has added live action director and creative director Richard D’Alessio. A commercial helmer with prominent Super Bowl ads to his credit, including “Cedric Date” for Bud Light, D’Alessio is also a creator of branded content series. He currently writes and directs TV promo, web and direct to brand campaigns worldwide for such clients as Volkswagen, Budweiser, Nintendo, Pepsi, Snickers, and General Motors, and TV networks such as Scripps, Showtime and Lifetime….World Famous, a creative collective of directors, designers, editors, writers and artists, has hired David Kleinman as EP and Kelly Green as head of production. Kleinman will be based in World Famous’ new L.A. studio, overseeing business development nationally, including commercials and long-form creative content, working with longtime EP Megan Ball in the Seattle market. Meanwhile Green will oversee creative operations out of World Famous’ Seattle headquarters. Kleinman was most recently managing director of entertainment marketing at mOcean. Green was EP at The New Blank, a motion design firm. She earlier served as a producer at Hal Riney & Partners, and a sr. producer at Publicis in the West….
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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