Buenos Aires-based director David Preizler, formerly of Reactor Films, Santa Monica, is now available for U.S. general and Hispanic market work through his firm, Marlin Films, with production bases in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo and Los Angeles….. Bicoastal editorial house Lost Planet has added editor/director/cinematographer Jaime Valdueza to its roster. He comes over from Module Zero Media, a shop he has owned and operated since 2002. Valdueza’s work spans the spot, music video feature and documentary worlds. In the latter arena, he edited and co-produced Children Rise directed by Bill Raftery. Children Rise follows the turbulent, dangerous lives of children living on the streets of Durban, South Africa. Valdueza had the daunting task of editing over 200 hours of film footage compiled over a four-year period, a project he calls the most moving and thought-provoking of his life…..Lenora Cushing has joined Hill Holiday’s Boston office as senior VP: and director of broadcast business affairs. In this capacity, Cushing will oversee celebrity and talent contract negotiations, secure trademark and copyright requirements, and ensure the agency’s creative work adheres to proper licensing rules. She spent the last 22 years at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, where she served in several roles. Since 1997, she had been Arnold’s group director of broadcast business affairs.
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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