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    MARCH 31, 2000
    Bicoastal production company hungry man has signed director Martin Canellakis for commercial representation….Jamie Hartman has signed with New York-based music house JSM….Nearly eight months after dissolving her former Venice, Calif.-based company Us 2 Editorial, editor Elisa Bonora has joined Harley’s House, a Santa Monica-based editorial/design and graphics company that services the commercial, music video, trailer and broadcast promo market….Director Ra’uf Glasgow has signed with Dublin Productions, Hollywood, for exclusive spot representation….Spots BME, a Chicago-based post boutique, has added editor Alaric Martin….Richard Sampson, a former freelance and agency producer, has come aboard Pogo Pictures, Atlanta, as its executive producer….Josh Kirsch has ended his eight-year tenure as a composer at JSM, New York, and opened his own shop, Kirsch Electric, also in New York….

     

    MARCH 31, 1995
    Director Pascal Baes, formerly handled stateside by bicoastal Crossroads Films, is now being represented for U.S. spotwork via bicoastal 1/33 Productions….Co-directors Erich Joiner and Scott Burns has set up shop in Santa Monica as Tool of North America. Joiner and Burns were noted agency creatives before making the formal plunge into filmmaking….Comedy director Billy Kent, who recently joined Crash Films, Santa Monica, has signed a production deal with Full Blue, New York. The director augmented his deal with Crash Films by signing with Full Blue for office space and access to Full Blue’s stage facility and associated post house Click 3X….Following three years at a facility, postproduction industry veteran Paul Hansil has returned to the manufacturer side, taking the reigns as senior VP of sales and marketing at Accom, Menlo Park, Calif….September Productions, Boston, has added comedy director Neil Salley for exclusive U.S. commercial

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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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