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    Street Talk for December 2016

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    Jerry Solomon, managing director, StudioTEN
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    Strangelove, a multi-platform production company aligned with Passion Pictures and which launched in the U.K. earlier this year, has now extended its reach to the stateside market with the opening of offices in New York and Los Angeles. Strangelove is the brainchild of former LEGS Media NY EP Tom Berendsen. The shop’s expansion and creative production in the United States will be facilitated by former 1stAveMachine vet Melinda Nugent, Berendsen and former LEGS colleague Sara Greco. Nugent serves as exec producer in Strangelove’s Los Angeles office while Greco is the New York-based EP. Strangelove’s roster of filmmakers, storytellers and artists in the U.S. includes Andrew Thomas Huang, BRTHR, Geremy & Georgie, and the Spindle collective. Director Geremy’s first feature film, Patti Cake$, is set to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January….

    TEN: The Enthusiast Network (a transmedia network which includes Motor Trend, Hot Rod, Surfer, Transworld Skateboarding) has rebranded its content creation and production entity formerly known as MindOverEye as StudioTEN, which continues to produce creative content for such clients as Honda, Dodge, Alfa Romeo, Ford, General Motors, Vizio and Nike. To head up the rebranded studio, TEN has tapped industry vet and executive producer Jerry Solomon as managing director. Solomon is known for his tenure at Epoch Films and later Persuade Content. At Epoch he co-founded the company’s London office as well as the branded content company Dandelion. Recently, he collaborated with brothers Rick and Sandy Smolan to produce the documentary The Human Face of Big Data, which was financed by Cisco and SAP and debuted on PBS in February 2016. Solomon also produced at Persuade the Emmy-winning content/experiential piece “Love Has No Labels” for The Ad Council and R/GA, a viral sensation with more than 125 million views….

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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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