Henninger 1150 Post, a division of Arlington, Va.-based Henninger Media Services, has hired Ralph Quattrucci as director of editorial services. In the newly created position, Quattrucci will oversee the post houses creative and editorial operations.
Prior to joining the Washington-based facility, Quattrucci spent six months as a senior nonlinear editor at Fast Cuts, Washington, where he was responsible for editing as well as supervising projects from preproduction through online post.
Before his stint at Fast Cuts, Quattrucci spent two years as a freelance Avid editor, serving clients in the Washington area. Prior to his freelance gig, Quattrucci spent 12 years as a senior online editor at Roland House, Arlington, where he assumed the duties of director of editorial services and was head of the linear editing department.
Henninger 1150 Post offers linear and nonlinear online editorial, nonlinear offline, audio mixing and duplication 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