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Early next month, Richard Cormier is set to join Oak Park, Mich.-based GTN as its president. He will work closely with GTN owner/CEO Doug Cheek. Cormier’s last staff position was as VP of New York-based Nice Shoes, as well as managing director of its sister companies Guava and Freestyle Collective…..New York-based design/visual effects/animation house Click 3x has teamed with editor Billy Senia to launch Habitat, a creative editorial boutique serving the advertising and broadcast sectors. The new venture features three editors and three Avid-based editorial suites located within Click 3x’s studios. Jason Mayo, executive producer of Click 3x, will assume the same role for Habitat. Also coming on board Habitat are editors Rob Campbell, who shifts over from Click 3x, and Aimee Lyde, who had formerly been freelancing. Senia was last on staff at Slingshot, New York….Chicago-based Ebel Productions has promoted Jason Schettler to executive producer. Over the last eight years, he has served as a producer and assistant director for the shop, which maintains a directorial roster consisting of Bob Ebel and Bill Ebel. Additionally, Clayton Hauck has come aboard as editor/creative assistant, and assistant business manager Jay Riippi has been promoted to production coordinator…..Jeremy McWilliams has been named executive producer of the advertising division of London-based New Moon. He previously was with @radical.media, London, and earlier served as managing director of Mustard Films, London….Q Music, a New York-based music/sound design venture founded by composer/producer Drazen Bosnjak, has opened an Amsterdam shop, establishing a foothold in the European ad market…..Emily Bliss and Michelle Stapleton, founders of London-based Brave Films, have decided to go their separate ways. Bliss will head up a rebranded Brave, which is to be called Home. Stapleton is expected to soon announce her future plans…..Category:Street Talk
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."
It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More
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