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    Miniature Stars

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    By Christine Champagne

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    It’s one thing to stumble into your kitchen in the middle of the night and spy a mouse scurrying behind the fridge or a cockroach running for cover. It’s quite another thing to stumble into your kitchen in the middle of the night and come upon a group of tiny men playing soccer. That’s the unexpected situation a woman confronts in an inventive new spot for Yahoo!, created by Black Rocket Euro RSCG, San Francisco, and directed by Marcos Siega of bicoastal/international hungry man-with visual effects and postproduction by Phoenix Editorial, San Francisco. Shoot Online subscribers may read this week’s Top Spot of the Week in full by accessing the Current Issue in the Members Area.

    CLIENT

    Yahoo!.

    PRODUCTION CO.

    hungry man, bicoastal/international.

    Marcos Siega, director; Ross Richardson, DP; Stephen Orent, executive producer/New York; Dan Duffy and Caroline Gibney, executive producers/Los Angeles; Justin Erickson, producer. Shot at Raleigh Studios, Manhattan Beach, Calif., and on location in Los Angeles.

    AGENCY

    Black Rocket Euro RSCG,

    San Francisco.

    Bob Kerstetter and Steve Stone, creative directors; Joe Rose, copywriter; Cory Smith, art director; Hannah Murray, producer.

    EDITORIAL

    Phoenix Editorial, San Francisco.

    Bob Frisk, editor.

    POST/VISUAL EFFECTS

    Phoenix Editorial.

    Matt Silverman, visual effects supervisor; Jimi Simmons, Flame artist; John Crossley, Smoke editor; Lisa Hinman, executive producer; Jonathan Hinman, producer.

    Company 3, Santa Monica.

    Stefan Sonnenfeld, colorist.

    AUDIO POST

    Crescendo! Studios,

    San Francisco.

    Jay Shilliday, mixer.

    MUSIC/SOUND DESIGN

    ripe sound, San Francisco.

    Andy Newell, composer/sound designer; Alisa McMullen, producer.

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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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