Peter Ziegler of Ziegler Management Group, New York, is now handling East Coast sales for Bruce Dowad Associates, Los Angeles….Maria Stenz and Michelle Stuart of Stenz and Company, New York, are handling East Coast sales for Free Market Films, New York….Angelina Powers has joined Convergence, New York, as director of sales and marketing. She will be repping the editorial facility nationally….Cinematographer Paul Cameron, a client in the commercial/music video division of Dattner Dispoto and Associates, Los Angeles, since 1988, has returned to the agency’s feature film division. The company has also signed cinematographers Xavier Perez Grobet and Jo Willems for exclusive representation in all divisions….DP Karsten "Crash" Gopinath is now repped by Jeannine Angelique at Lyons Sheldon Prosnit, Los Angeles….DP John Toll has wrapped principal photography on director Edward Zwick’s The Last Samurai, and is available for commercials via the Judy Marks Agency, Los Angeles….DP Daniel Stoloff is now available for spots and music videos through Innovative Artists, Santa Monica, after completing principal photography on the Disney film Miracle for director Gavin O’Conner….
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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