Arcade Edit has brought Nicole Visram on board as executive producer. She previously served in the same capacity for seven years at Cutters. Her experience spans TV, film, TV commercials and news media.
British-born Visram began her career as a producer with the BBC in London before moving to the U.S. to work in commercial production. It was the role of producer for The Three Tenors that traced her path to Los Angeles. Visram then chose to take a role with director Tony Kaye–who was working on American History X at the time–producing for his company TONY K, working on commercials for brands including IBM, Volvo and MasterCard.
She later became a sr. producer with Ogilvy & Mather in Los Angeles, producing spots for such clients as Motorola, IBM, Mattel and the Anaheim Angels baseball team.
Recently Visram was an associate producer on the short film entitled The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom, directed by Lucy Walker and produced by Supply & Demand Integrated. Tsunami earned an Oscar nomination this year in the Documentary Short Subject category. The short was edited by Aki Mizutani, Visram’s colleague at Cutters.
Some of Visram’s other notable achievements include serving as a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary film, Earthlings, narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, as well as the 2001 film Bad Actors, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival.
Visram was the creative lead and producer of Jared Leto’s band 30 Seconds to Mars–a tribute to Japan’s relief for the tsunami disaster.
Arcade Edit is an editorial collective and partnership between managing partner Damian Stevens and editors/partners Kim Bica, Geoff Hounsell, and Paul Martinez. Arcade’s roster of talent also includes editors Christjan Jordan and Greg Scruton. Alongside Arcade, the partners have also launched Airship, an integrated creative arm specializing in online, graphics, design, and visual effects headed by directors/artists Chris Homel and Matthew Lydecker.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
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."
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