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    Street Talk for August 12, 2022

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    Lucrecia Taormina
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    PRETTYBIRD UK has signed 2021 UKMVA award-winning director Lucrecia Taormina. Her ascent as a director started in part when she earned the Best Pop Newcomer award at the 2019 UKMVA’s for her Tarantino-esque Ashnikko music video, making her the only female director to win an award that night. Taormina’s work has often gone viral, achieving public acclaim and garnering attention on the international awards circuit. She has won awards from the Kinsale Shark, Creative Circle, 1.4 and UKMVA competitions, as well as recognition at the Cannes Lions Young Directors Awards, and Ciclope Awards. Originally from Buenos Airies, Taormina moved to London’s Soho to study photography. Her studies led to a love of the moving image and enabled her to find her voice and aesthetic as a director. The recent work Taormina is most proud of is her music video for Ibeyi ft Jorja Smith–”Lavender & Red Roses”…

    David Bell has been appointed to the board of directors at Ad.net. Bell brings to the L.A.-headquartered Ad.net his expertise in technology, media, marketing, and publishing, having spent his career advising the world’s largest advertisers and technology companies as they’ve scaled their businesses. Bell has over 40 years of advertising industry experience, having served as CEO for Bozell Worldwide, True North Communications, and The Interpublic Group. He is founder/chairman of Gyro, the independent global creative agency dedicated exclusively to business-to-business marketing, and served as an independent director of Madison Logic…Notably, he was senior advisor to AOL during its IPO, sale to Verizon and then Verizon’s acquisition of Yahoo. Mr. Bell was inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame in 2007…..

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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