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    The Whitehouse Promotes From Within For New Mgt. Team

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    Thornley, McGraw, Dawson, Halama And Ruble To Take On Expanded Roles

    NEW YORK --

    The Whitehouse, an editorial company with bases of operation in London, New York, Chicago and Santa Monica, has promoted from within to assemble a new management team in preparation for the pending departure of CEO Charles Day and COO Christine Tardio.

    As earlier reported, company partners Day and Tardio are leaving next month to move onto new career challenges (SHOOT, 3/18, p. 1). The Whitehouse has named five company professionals to take the managerial reins and assume expanded responsibilities.

    Melissa Thornley has been named managing director, a position that will have day-to-day authority to run The Whitehouse. Beginning her career with the company eight years ago, she has served as executive producer for the company’s Chicago, New York and London offices.

    Reporting to Thornley will be four department directors, all current Whitehouse employees who take on the following expanded roles: Dan McGraw, director of strategic development and technology; Sue Dawson, director of postproduction; Lacey Halama, director of operations; and Joe Ruble, director of finance.

    McGraw had been the company’s director of technology for the past five years. Prior to The Whitehouse, McGraw was a senior manager at Avid Technology.

    Dawson is currently the executive producer of The Whitehouse’s Santa Monica shop. In her new capacity, she will manage all of the company’s 14 producers and will be responsible for their individual and collective development. Dawson came aboard The Whitehouse in 1998 with experience in post and agency production, including a stint at Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore.

    Halama has been with The Whitehouse for four years. She served as the company’s manager of operations, working under outgoing COO Tardio.

    And Ruble had been consulting with The Whitehouse over the last year regarding the overall financial management of the company.

    The remaining partners in The Whitehouse are editors David Brixton, Russell Icke, Rick Lawley and John Smith.

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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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