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    Duck Soup Studios, Los Angeles, has signed New York-based Jennifer Warren to head East Coast sales. The animation studio continues to be repped by Mary Ida Bonadio in the Midwest and Andrew Halpern on the West Coast…San Francisco-based kaboom Productions has signed Commercial Artists Management, New York, for East Coast representation, and Michal Brown, Chicago, for exclusive Midwest representation. Kaboom still retains Sandra Riley of Free Lunch, San Francisco, for the West Coast market….Los Angeles-based Blue Music & Sound Design has named Tim Reischauser of The Reischauer Group, Sherman Oaks, Calif., to head West Coast sales; Robin Pickett and Maureen Butler of Pickett Associates, Chicago, for Midwest representation; and Lori Benson and Rich Schafler of Benson/Schafler Artists Management, New York, to spearhead East Coast sales….Santa Monica-based U.S. Hispanic and Latin American spot production house Carbo Films has hired sales rep Marinet Quinones. She will be in charge of sales for the U.S. Hispanic market, Latin America and the Caribbean. Prior to joining Carbo, Quinones worked at Accentmarketing, Miami, as executive producer….Smith.Gosnell.Nicholson & Associates, Pacific Palisades, Calif., has signed DP Dermott Downs for commercials, music videos and features…

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    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."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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