On Friday, UK’s antitrust authority announced a new investigation into Google’s plan to end support for third party cookies in Chrome. The probe, it explained, is meant to determine whether the change “could cause advertising spend to become even more concentrated on Google’s ecosystem,” potentially choking out competing companies that are for the most part already gasping for air.
By Joe DePaoloDec 30th, 2020, 9:57 am
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Following public criticism and pleas from local health officials, Hollywood will be largely shut down for the next few weeks.
According to the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), Hollywood is mostly locking down for a while. In a note penned by SAG-AFTRA leaders
Gabrielle Carteris and
David White, the labor union informed its membership of the plan.
“Most entertainment productions will remain on hiatus until the second or third week of January if not later,” Carteris and White wrote. “This means that the number of our member performers working on sets right now is reduced.”