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    Cultivate.Media, Click 3X Enter Into Strategic Alliance

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Cultivate.Media, a Los Angeles-based production company, and Click 3X, a NY-headquartered digital creative studio along with its live action division X3 Films, have partnered to form a bicoastal strategic alliance, expanding the companies’ extensive roster of directors as well as growing their capabilities across coasts. 

    The newly formed partnership allows Cultivate.Media and Click 3X the ability to bundle and package a wide range of director talent with Click 3X’s well established postproduction, animation, digital and design capabilities. The partnership will also give Click 3X and Cultivate.Media access to production operations on both the East and West Coasts, including X3 Films’ sound stage and equipment in New York City. 

    Cultivate.Media is led by Mark Thomas, partner and managing director, and Hugh Bacher, executive producer. Cultivate’s directorial roster includes Ali Ali, Dean Blumberg, Indigenous, Matty Smith, Scotty Bergstein, Steve Gordon and Gail Mancuso. 

    Thomas related, “We’ve been working with Click 3X on projects so this new relationship only strengthens our capabilities and increases our opportunities.”

    Peter Corbett is founder and president of Click 3X. Bill Hewes heads up X3 Films with a directorial lineup which includes Tyler Greco, Lindsey Daniels, Aron Baxter and Justin Dickel. 

    “Projects now combine so many disciplines–live action, post, animation and technology, all areas where Click 3X excels,” said Corbett. “With this new relationship, we now can further expand and diversify our group of talented artists in a bicoastal operation to meet the varied needs of our clients.”

    Both Click 3X and Cultivate.Media are represented by Brad Edelstein and Cachet (Sabrina Mehar) on the East Coast; Helen O’Brien in the Midwest; and Toni Saarinen and Brandon Pic on the West Coast and in Texas.

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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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