NEW YORK-HBO Studio Productions (HSP), New York, has hired colorist Richard Dare and editor Todd Feuer.
Prior to joining HSP, Dare spent eight years at The Tape House, New York. He joined The Tape House as an assistant editor and after one year, he was promoted to night colorist. He was then promoted to day colorist. At The Tape House, Dare worked on commercials for Sentinel pet products and the Dodge Intrepid. He also worked on the feature films Love! Valour! Compassion!, Mrs. Brown, Good Will Hunting and Marvin’s Room.
Before The Tape House, Dare spent two years at Charlex, New York. He joined the company as a dubber and was promoted to matte cutter.
Feuer spent six months as a New York-based freelance editorwhich included gigs at HSP-before becoming a HSP staffer. As a freelancer, Feuer edited the syndicated talk show Forgive or Forget and the ESPN program Sports Century.
Prior to his gig as a freelancer, Feuer was an editor for one year at CBS Cable in Stamford, Conn. While at CBS Cable, he edited promos for many cable networks, including A&E, The Discovery Channel, Outdoor Life Network and Speedvision.
Feuer spent four years freelancing before heading over to CBS Cable. During his stint as a freelancer, Feuer worked as a videographer at director Steven Spielberg’s Shoa Foundation, an organization that interviews Holocaust survivors for documentaries.
HSP, in operation since 1972, is a video facility offering sound stages, graphics and visual effects, off-line and on-line editorial, film-to-tape transfers, sound mixing and satellite transmission services.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More