Director Margo Weathers has joined bicoastal Supply&Demand Integrated. Her credits span clients such as Neiman Marcus, Armani, Zegna and Chanel. She formerly served as associate creative director for Neiman Marcus stores. Weathers rounds out a Supply&Demand directorial roster that includes Jeffery Plansker, Greg Popp, Sean Thonson, Josh Taft, Landis Smithers, Robert Logevall, Matthew Rolston, Tony Kaye, Adrien Brody, Lucy Walker, Gabriela Cowperthwaite and David Holm…..Los Angeles-based Boxer Films has signed up-and-coming director Dawn Garcia for commercial representation. The helmer is fresh out of UCLA School of Theater Film and Television’s Directing Program, where her PALs short film won a coveted Director’s Spotlight Award and her first-ever film produced in the program, The Castle, premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival. Post-graduation, her credits include Destroyer’s “Kaputt” and When Saints Go Machine’s “Add Ends” music videos. Additionally, Garcia is developing her PALs short into a feature with Oscar®-winning producer Tom Nunan (Crash, Employee of the Month, Thumbsucker, and The Illusionist)….
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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