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    Adorama Rental Company hires Mike Nichols as VP of sales & marketing

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    NEW YORK --

    Adorama Rental Company (ARC), an equipment rental house for high-end digital cinematography, has brought Mike Nichols aboard as VP of sales and marketing. Nichols will be responsible for building a five-year strategy with a focus on growth and expansion of the company. He will identify new areas of revenue which look beyond the transactional rental business as well as develop services for ARC’s high-end digital cinema market with a customer service mindset.

    Nichols comes to Adorama Rental Co. with 13 years of experience managing rental company AbelCine, and has feature film and television credits spanning 27 years. Prior to managing AbelCine, he worked for Zooma Zooma, a boutique commercial production company co-founded by director Sam Raimi and executive producer Joseph Mantegna. 

    Glenn Kornfeld, president of Adorama Rental Company, said, “Coming out of the pandemic, ARC will be focusing on expanding our high-end optics inventory as well as servicing the wider high-end digital cinema market. Mike’s passion, vast technical knowledge and acute business acumen will be integral in this shift of focus and building ARC into the national rental house we aspire to be.”

    Nichols shared, “In addition to helping reshape the ARC brand, I hope to find new and exciting opportunities between Adorama’s family of Business Units, such as Adorama, SunnySports, Scuba.com, and Printique.”

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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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