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    Street Talk for July 17, 2015

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    Director Kurt Mattila has joined Supply&Demand for commercial representation. The recipient of a Student Academy Award, Mattila has gone on to turn out campaigns for clients including BMW, Ford and Red Bull. Longer format work includes the Summit Entertainment feature Lies and Alibis as well as the documentary Art in Video Games for the Museum of Contemporary Art. Mattila entered the industry as founding member/partner of Imaginary Forces where work on assorted feature film sequences included the dream sequences for Minority Report, a hypnotic blur of expressionistic moments that successfully foreshadow the genesis of future crimes. Mattila is currently recreating the same sequences for the Minority Report pilot currently being made for Fox and DreamWorks. Design and editing duties led to Mattila forming Prologue Pictures with Alexander Dervin, producing live-action narrative, documentary and spot work. Most recently, Mattila completed a live-action teaser to launch Syfy’s new series Ascension, designing and developing the creative look for the show….

    The One Club has announced that the One Show entry system is now open, months ahead of last year’s submission period.  The non-profit has introduced a quarterly entry system for The One Show, as well as a set of public relations categories. The quarterly system divides the entry periods into four deadlines, beginning in July and ending with the usual final deadline at the end of January.  The first quarter deadline is August 14; the second is September 30; the third is November 30; and the fourth, the last one before the show, is January 29.  Two shortlists will be announced: the first in early October and the second in early April. The quarterly entry system benefits the creatives entering, the judges reviewing and the quality of the work at The One Show, according to Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club who noted that agencies are able to submit their work when it’s fresh and the media files required to submit an entry are readily available.  Meanwhile, judges will have the opportunity to review work when it’s topical and will have less pressure to review work from the entire year all at once. The One Club also introduced a group of public relations categories, including Consumer, CSR, Non-Profit, Innovation and Craft….

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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