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    Bodnar, Kelly join Deluxe Creative Services’ sr. management team

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Deluxe has added two members to the senior management team at the Creative Services division: Jay Bodnar as chief technology officer and Lawrence Kelly as sr. VP, finance. The newly restructured Creative Services division combines subsidiary companies and services for features, entertainment television and commercials, under one umbrella. Bodnar and Kelly will report to CEO Stefan Sonnenfeld.

    Bodnar served as sr. VP engineering, TV, for over a decade. He spearheaded the Television division’s  transition to file-based workflows for all post and VFX work as well as the near-set dailies service (MobiLabs) pipeline. He has been instrumental in unifying multiple engineering teams to maximize resources and efficiencies among multiple facilities.

    Kelly, who joined Deluxe in October as VP of finance, Method Studios, has 20 years of experience on the studio side of the business.  He was at Warner Bros. for 12 years as VP of finance, The Americas for WB Home Entertainment Group, and previously served as VP of finance, Asia Pacific & Latin America, WBHEG. From working at Warner Bros., Universal, and Paramount Pictures collectively, Kelly was a key participant in the studios’ corporate and strategic planning, business development, international operations, talent and production budgeting, theatrical release budgeting, and complex deal structuring with a variety of studio and feature production companies as well as international partners.

    “Jay and Larry round out the senior management team beautifully,” said Sonnenfeld. “Jay has done an amazing job keeping Encore and Level 3 ahead of the technology curve. Larry comes to us with an enormous amount of experience on the studio end. Together, they will help guide Deluxe Creative Services into the rapidly-changing industry for 2015 and beyond.”

    Deluxe’s Creative Services division will centralize operations of color, editorial, VFX, and all other post-production services across multiple platforms, allowing all of Deluxe’s companies–Company 3, Beast, Deluxe New York, Encore, EFilm, Level 3 Post, Method Studios, and Rushes–-to work together more efficiently and maximize synergy.

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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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