Looking to expand its capabilities in the Southwest market, Willow Street Editorial (formerly known as Mad River Post/Dallas) has gone independent, entering into a strategic alliance with New York-based The Lodge to offer original music, sound and mixing capabilities to its core postproduction business.
Willow Street continues under the aegis of executive VP James Appleton. The shop’s roster consists of senior editor Erik Johnson (formerly of Crew Cuts and Homestead, New York), editors Sylvette Artinian (repped by Willow Street in the Southwest and Dallas markets) and Quan Tran.
Overseeing the day-to-day operation is executive producer Jeb Schary who last year came over from his producer’s post at The Richards Group, Dallas. Other key staffers are producer Liana Matin and head of client services Robin Gierhart.
Plans call for The Lodge to handle Willow Street’s mixing needs while offering scoring and sound design by drawing on talent from its New York, London and Tokyo studios.
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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