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    Chicago-headquartered Leo Burnett Co. has hired veteran commercial music composer Ira Antelis as director of Music-Aid. This new initiative is driven by Burnett USA chairman/chief creative officer Cheryl Berman to promote effective music use in TV, radio and online advertising. Antelis, who maintains his Chicago-based Antelis Music (which will work only on Burnett and non ad-related projects), will collaborate directly with the agency’s creative and production departments. He will report to Burnett director of television production Jonathan Davis….Seth Epstein, founder of Santa Monica-based Fuel, has exited Razorfish, the New York-headquartered digital communications firm that acquired Fuel last year. Epstein was unavailable for comment at press time. But according to Fuel executive producer Matthew Marquis, the production house will continue to represent Epstein as a spot director….Director Dennis Gallegos has joined New York-based eo productions….In an effort to reposition itself as a new media company as well as a commercial house, Dallas-based Concrete Productions is changing its name to Blind Spot Media and is opening a Santa Monica office; the Concrete directorial roster remains intact and new signings are pending….New York-based editorial and design house 89 Greene has become the exclusive U.S. rep for Kuala Lumpur-based editor Kate James….Creative director/designer Nicholas Koenig has entered into an exclusive relationship with Radium, which maintains digital studios in San Francisco and Los Angeles. He will focus on production design, storyboards, matte paintings and character design for spots, but will also be involved in CG R&D of various animated characters for new intellectual properties….Karen Bianca has been named head of production at bicoastal Curious Pictures….Composer/producer Sidney Woloshin of music house Sid Woloshin, New York, has died of pneumonia at the age of 72.…

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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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