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    Creative director Matt Pascuzzi joins MPC

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    NEW YORK --

    Global production studio Moving Picture Company (MPC) has added award-winning creative director Matt Pascuzzi to its executive leadership team.   

    Previously at Framestore, Pascuzzi joins MPC’s New York studio, headed by managing director Angela Lupo, to further cement and develop the creative studio’s visual effects offering to the region’s top creative agencies and brands. In the new role, he’ll play a key part in the creative executive leadership team at MPC New York, consisting of Alvin Cruz, Sina Taherkhani, and Tom McCullough. Pascuzzi will focus on growing and mentoring all VFX departments within the company as well as driving new creative partnerships and business opportunities.  

    With an eye to the future of branded content development, Pascuzzi will focus on the expansion of the company into real-time and virtual production technologies. He will work closely with brand and agency clients, as well as MPC’s roster of directors to define the best applications of these new technologies to create next-generation production and advertising opportunities.  

    In his nine-year tenure at Framestore, Pascuzzi was a leading creative on work for Samsung, Oreo and Sam Adams, and cultivated creative relationships with agencies including Arts & Sciences, Goodby Silverstein & Partners and The Martin Agency.  

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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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