Editor Kate Owen, who now divides her time between New York and London, has secured her first stateside representation, joining the roster of Chinagraph, New York. She continues to be handled in the U.K. by Marshall Street Editors, a London shop she’s been cutting work at for nearly a decade.
Editing full-time since 2000, Owen has amassed a body of spot work that spans clients such as Guinness, Johnny Walker, Xerox, Canon and Samsung, and the Victoria Beckham collection.
She got her start assisting at the age of 18, working at an edit house in London’s Soho district. Owen began her cutting career with film trailers and then diversified into commercials encompasing assorted genres, from action to comedy and fast-paced montages.
Owen joins a lineup of Chinagraph editors that includes owners Eric Carlson and Kane Platt, as well as John Gramaglia, Peter Mostert, Pete Slife, and Thomas Ostuni. The company’s exec producer is Rosemary Quigley.
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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