Recent News: GE Energy Wind Farm, NBE & GE Healthcare, GE Water, Bloomington Plant, Defensive Play and Trading Sideways

GE Energy invests in two new wind farms
Greenbang remembers a bygone era when wind was just good for kite flying, drying clothes and sailing. Pah, stupid wind. What good was it to humanity then? Selfish, Greenbang reckons....

NBC and GE Healthcare team up on vision for patient engagement
A partnership between GE Healthcare and NBC Universal is part of GE's vision to get patients more engaged in their healthcare through a combination of IT and online content....

How GE Water streamlined its events
In 2006, General Electric Water and Process Technologies, a division of GE that supplies water treatment, wastewater treatment and process systems solutions, was a conglomeration of several different companies it had acquired over the years. Each of those companies brought some baggage with them....

Workers to take over GE plant in Bloomington?
Rather than seeing the General Electric Co. refrigerator plant in Bloomington close, the Monroe County Economic Development Commission plans to study whether it would make sense for the employees to buy and operate the site....

General Electric (GE) -- a good, defensive play
General Electric Co. shares gained 4.3% by 1 p.m. following an upgrade from Merrill Lynch to Buy from Neutral. Analyst John G. Inch said GE seems to be a good defensive play in today's climate and that its range of businesses and large global exposure (more than half its revenue comes from outside the U.S) will help it weather a U.S. recession...

In down market, sideways GE shares look good: investors
For most of the past three years, investors looking at General Electric Co., have had a common complaint -- the shares were "trading sideways," showing little movement of any kind. ...