The creative team of Fabian Berglund and Ida Gronblom has joined Wieden+Kennedy, New York. The duo comes over from R/GA New York, where they have been since 2010. Previously Berglund and Gronblom spent five years at Wieden+Kennedy London.
While at R/GA, Berglund and Gronblom worked on campaigns for Nike and a number of successful new business pitches, including a campaign for Giorgio Armani Fragrances to support The UNICEF Tap Project during World Water Week 2011.
Berglund and Gronblom will work as a senior creative team on all brands across the Wieden+Kennedy New York client roster, which includes the recently added Heineken USA business, as well as ESPN, Delta Air Lines, Nike, Jordan Brand, ABC Network Television, Disney XD, and ABC Family.
The duo met at Berghs School of Communication in Stockholm, Sweden, teaming up in 2005 after winning a D&AD Student Award. They briefly worked for Tequila/TBWA before starting at W+K, where they worked on Nokia Global, Honda, Nike, The Guardian, Pizza Hut, EA Games and Save the Children.
Gronblom, originally from Finland, holds a bachelor of arts in fashion design from the Helsinki University of Art & Design (TAIK). Berglund, who was born and raised in Sweden, studied screen, TV and video production at the KvB Institute of Technology.
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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