Bicoastal production house Voyager has signed creative management company Sharon & Perry, which maintains offices in Chicago and Austin, for representation in the Midwest and Texas. Voyager’s roster consists of intimate documentarian and company founding director Charles Frank, director and Emmy-award winning editor Caitlyn Green (recipient of Tribeca Film Festival 2018’s Best Editing in a Documentary Film), narrative storyteller Marcus Tortorici and conceptual filmmaker Andrew Litten. Voyager has recently worked for brands such as Facebook, Spotify and Garmin Aviation, and collaborated with agencies BBDO, Deutsch, and R/GA, among many others. Voyager’s first feature documentary, Somewhere With No Bridges, helmed by Frank, is slated to premiere next year. Among Frank’s early career accomplishments was earning a slot in SHOOT’s New Directors Showcase in 2016. Sharon & Perry’s Sharon Swanson grew up running brands at places like Hal Riney, ChiatDay, Leo Burnett and Ogilvy. Perry Tongate of Sharon & Perry spent 10 years as a national sales rep for charlieuniformtango; he’s spent another decade as an independent rep…..
A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly
U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.
The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.
Here's what it all means:
What is the Justice Department's goal?
Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.
"The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."
Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."
It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More