This week FCC Chairman Kevin Martin addressed the Senate, and expressed deep concern that media companies are not limiting food and beverage ads targeted at children. In his address, Martin left the possibility that the FCC might impose restrictions if the rest of the media doesn't change its course. (PRWeb Oct 7, 2008)

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BRUSSELS (AFP) - The Belgian and French governments have agreed that former Belgian premier Jean-Luc Dehaene should become new chairman of troubled Dexia bank, with a BNP Paribas manager as CEO, Belgian leaders said Tuesday.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy assured Juande Ramos that his job is safe but stressed that their results must improve

ECB chairman Giles Clarke says the $20m (£11.5m) match between England a Stanford Superstars XI will go ahead.

ECB chairman Giles Clarke says the $20m (£11.5m) match between England a Stanford Superstars XI will go ahead.

There were two burning questions to be answered at Boris Johnson’s first meeting as chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority.

Tech Treasures: "There are security risks and data ownership issues that you have to take into consideration. To get another point of view on the matter, I talked to John Newton, who is the Chairman and CTO at open source content management Alfresco..."

After watching the first presidential debate, one person on that stage clearly showcased the leadership, focus and bipartisan attitude the U.S. needs to turn itself around. Unfortunately, Jim Lehrer isn't actually running, so it didn't help my own decision process much, and I remain decisively undecided at the moment. In watching the bailout last week, it became clear that tech is clearly at risk, and I was struck by the reality that were the U.S. a company, the CEO, CFO and chairman of the board (Speaker of the House) would likely have all been, and should have been, fired.

Europe's governments must work together to deliver a "visible and stable" European energy policy or they will fail to attract the investment they need to meet sharply rising demand, says Pierre Gadonneix, president of the World Energy Council and chairman of French energy group, EDF

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Game Politics has been doing an excellent job covering which game developers and game industry executives have been contributing money to the various US Presidential campaigns. It shouldn't come as a shock that most of them are Democrats who have given money to that political party's nominee Barack Obama.

So far nine game industry members including Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello, Take Two Interactive chairman Strauss Zelnick, Rockstar Games co-founder Sam Houser and Sony Online CEO John Smedley have all given money to Obama's campaign. Only three gaming reps have given money to the Republican candidate John McCain; Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling and, in what might be a surprise to some, Maxis founder Will Wright.

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