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    The Comfort Zones, a London-headquartered talent representation/ad agency consultancy firm (SHOOT, 1/26, p. 1), will rep Los Angeles-headquartered Top Dog in most international markets (except for the U.S., Canada and the U.K.). A division of bicoastal RSA USA and London-based RSA Films (SHOOT, 1/19, p. 1), Top Dog specializes in garnering spot assignments for select feature filmmakers. The Top Dog roster includes Oliver Stone, Anjelica Huston, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Diane Keaton, Tim Roth, John McTiernan, Renny Harlin, Stephen Hopkins, Mira Nair, Stephan Elliott, Kevin Allen and Casey Affleck….Park Pictures, New York, has signed New York-based independent reps Michael Arkin and Jennifer Warren to handle the East Coast. Chris Brenneman of Stacy & Annie & Chris, Chicago, reps the company in the Midwest….Independent firm Ellen Knable & Associates (eka) has taken on West Coast and Midwest representation for Santa Monica-based motion graphics design company Belief. Knable has also been named head of U.S. sales for Montreal-based production house Fabrique d’Images….Director Tom Donald of Tom Donald Films, San Francisco, is now being represented in Canada by Navigator Films, Toronto….Susan Berg has been appointed as the in-house sales representative for Blink.fx and Image Editorial, New York. Berg spent the past three and a half years as a senior sales executive at Manhattan Transfer, New York…. Underwater DP specialist Pete Romano has joined The Mirisch Agency, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation…. DP Tom Houghton lensed By Courier, which was nominated for an Academy Award in the live-action short film category. Houghton is repped for spots by The Directors Network, Studio City, Calif…. Production designer Walter P. Martishius has finished work on Dinotopia, directed by Marco Brambilla, and is available exclusively through Lyons•Sheldon•Prosnit, Los Angeles….

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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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