Recent News: Apple iTunes and NBCU Programs, Google, GE Oil and Gas, and EPA / Housatonic River

Apple ends beef with NBC over iTunes shows
Apple Inc. has lured the NBC television network back to the iTunes online media service. This ends a year of acrimony over the prices Apple charges for shows it sells over iTunes...

You Don't Really Understand Google
lot of people think that Google lives and dies with online success alone, and that this state of affairs will never change. I hate to have to tell you this, but you're all wrong.
The Wall Street Journal supports my position today by lifting the veil of secrecy from an advertising deal between Mountain View and General Electric's NBC Universal unit. No, Google isn't going to carpet-bomb the Sci-Fi Channel and CNBC with obnoxious brand-builder ads, the way Yahoo! yodeled all over your TV a decade ago. This deal goes the other way....

GE Oil & Gas wins 100 mln usd contract for China's 2nd West-to-East gas pipeline
GE Oil & Gas, a unit of US-based General Electric, said it won a 100 mln usd contract to provide pipeline compression equipment for China's second West-to-East natural gas transmission pipeline...

EPA says GE cleanup plan for Housatonic inadequate
The EPA has criticized General Electric Co.'s cleanup plan for a stretch of the Housatonic River south of Pittsfield....