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    Irv Blitz is now directing through bicoastal HSI Productions. Prior to joining HSI, Blitz was represented by bicoastal Morton Jankel Zander….Word is that director Jeffrey Fleisig is leaving bicoastal Villains to join bicoastal/international Propaganda Films….Speaking of Villains, longtime freelance line producer Richard Goldstein has joined as executive producer of the company’s commercial division. He will serve alongside Villains’ executive producer/principal Robin Benson….Bicoastal/international entertainment marketing communications and design company Pittard Sullivan closed its doors last week. Its assets are reportedly in the process of being liquidated….Mono-monikered director Brando has come aboard New York-headquartered Shooting Gallery Productions….Griff Marshall, executive producer of San Francisco-based Jon Francis Films, has bought the shop from director Jon Francis and company board member Sandra Francis. Marshall has changed the production house’s moniker to Big Trout Pictures and has brought directors Timothy Roarke and Nike Preovolos on board to complement longstanding helmer Francis…..Animation director Frank Molieri has joned Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, Hollywood….Bicoastal/ international Chelsea Pictures has signed London-based design group hi-res! (Florian Schmitt and Alexandra Jugovic) to its new Internet marketing division, Id…..Jeanine Pepler has left Chelsea Pictures, where she was head of the house’s Thru-line division, which reps feature directors for spots….Executive producer Kim Daniels, who was head of production at September Productions before it closed its Boston shop, has opened Kilowatt Films, Boston. Kilowatt reps director Maria LoConte….Editor Alan Morris, a former owner of Invisible Dog, New York, has joined Refinery, New York…..Music house Downtown Composers Collective, Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., has been launched by executive producers Bill Ronan and Trish Murray; it will rep established recording artists for spot projects….Composer/sound designer Ben Neill and executive producer Carolyn Sachs have opened Green Beet Productions, New York. The duo had been working on music and sound design for commercials under the banner Trillium Productions, New York….

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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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