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....
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Recent News: GE Healthcare, M&A, Lawsuit, EPA, and Climate-Change Costs
GE Healthcare teams with Centrak to introduce battery-based RFID asset optimization solution
GE Healthcare today announced a predominantly battery-operated radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking system in partnership with CenTrak, Inc. of Newtown, PA. The new asset optimization solution, an innovative introduction to the marketplace, will enable healthcare facilities to reduce installation barriers and costs, compared to current RFID systems, thereby serving them to maximize return-on-investment (ROI) potential. In addition, the solution’s ability to accurately view locations at the room-level will enhance a hospital’s operational efficiency and improve overall patient care...
GE Healthcare Customers Realize Beauty of Science as Research to Be Published in Times Square
GE Healthcare, a leading global provider of automated high content analysis systems, will display winning entries from its IN Cell Analyzer(tm) Image Competition 2007 on the NBC screen in Times Square, New York on March 7 and 9, 2008...
Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day 1/24 (ALY, BRNC, GE, GSIC)
Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund backed by GE and Credit Suisse Group is the new front runner in the potential buyout of U.K. waste management firm Biffa. Biffa says GIP has joined with Montagu Private Equity on the deal. TheDeal reported this news earlier this morning...
Business Books: Author says Welch's tough talk strengthened GE
Jack Welch transformed General Electric Co. from an old-economy manufacturer into a modern conglomerate, in part because of his insistence on a culture of straight talk, according to a new book by his former speechwriter...
GE attorney's class action lawsuit to go forward
A high-ranking attorney for General Electric Co. can go ahead with her class-action lawsuit against what she calls the "very male-dominated culture" in the international conglomerate, a federal judge has ruled...
EPA gives GE the OK to dredge less soil
General Electric is going to dredge one-third less of the volume of PCB-tainted soil in the Hudson River, but the company says a focus on the stretch between Troy and Northumberland will lead to the removal of two-thirds more of the chemical...
GE Can't Block Shareholder Vote On Climate-Change Costs
General Electric Co. (GE) cannot block shareholders from voting on a global-warming measure pushed by the Free Enterprise Action Fund, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff has decreed. The decision is a victory for the tiny mutual fund, which is demanding better corporate accountability regarding the cost of climate-change initiatives...
GE Healthcare today announced a predominantly battery-operated radio frequency ID (RFID) tracking system in partnership with CenTrak, Inc. of Newtown, PA. The new asset optimization solution, an innovative introduction to the marketplace, will enable healthcare facilities to reduce installation barriers and costs, compared to current RFID systems, thereby serving them to maximize return-on-investment (ROI) potential. In addition, the solution’s ability to accurately view locations at the room-level will enhance a hospital’s operational efficiency and improve overall patient care...
GE Healthcare Customers Realize Beauty of Science as Research to Be Published in Times Square
GE Healthcare, a leading global provider of automated high content analysis systems, will display winning entries from its IN Cell Analyzer(tm) Image Competition 2007 on the NBC screen in Times Square, New York on March 7 and 9, 2008...
Notable Mergers and Acquisitions of the Day 1/24 (ALY, BRNC, GE, GSIC)
Global Infrastructure Partners, a fund backed by GE and Credit Suisse Group is the new front runner in the potential buyout of U.K. waste management firm Biffa. Biffa says GIP has joined with Montagu Private Equity on the deal. TheDeal reported this news earlier this morning...
Business Books: Author says Welch's tough talk strengthened GE
Jack Welch transformed General Electric Co. from an old-economy manufacturer into a modern conglomerate, in part because of his insistence on a culture of straight talk, according to a new book by his former speechwriter...
GE attorney's class action lawsuit to go forward
A high-ranking attorney for General Electric Co. can go ahead with her class-action lawsuit against what she calls the "very male-dominated culture" in the international conglomerate, a federal judge has ruled...
EPA gives GE the OK to dredge less soil
General Electric is going to dredge one-third less of the volume of PCB-tainted soil in the Hudson River, but the company says a focus on the stretch between Troy and Northumberland will lead to the removal of two-thirds more of the chemical...
GE Can't Block Shareholder Vote On Climate-Change Costs
General Electric Co. (GE) cannot block shareholders from voting on a global-warming measure pushed by the Free Enterprise Action Fund, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff has decreed. The decision is a victory for the tiny mutual fund, which is demanding better corporate accountability regarding the cost of climate-change initiatives...
Monday, January 14, 2008
Recent News: GE Foundation, GE Aviation, EPA, GE Water, GE Energy Financial Services, Renewable Energy, and Vietnam
GE grant can inspire great change
In Louisville, Ky., a city most of us associate with the Kentucky Derby and the famous company that makes baseball bats, the school district has been making impressive strides in how it educates tens of thousands of public school students. A $25 million grant from the GE Foundation has had a lot to do with it...
GE going full-throttle
GE Aviation notched another record year in 2007, booking $25.5 billion worth of new orders throughout the world...
EPA Extends Public Comment Period for the Ecological Risk Assessment for GE Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for the recently-completed Ecological Risk Assessment for a major section of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
Eureka Forbes ties up with GE for clean water
The Shapoorji Pallonji group is betting big on the water business. Eureka Forbes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji group, is understood to have tied up with US infrastructure major GE Water for the expansion of its water filter business...
GE Unit Teams with SunPower on California Solar Projects
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, announced that it is partnering with SunPower Corp. -- a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems -- to provide financing for five California solar power projects...
GE to double renewable energy investment
General Electric will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...
GE to double its investments in renewable energy to $6bn by 2010
General Electric will today announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...
GE to double investments in renewable energies: FT
Diversified conglomerate General Electric Co. will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6 billion by 2010, the Financial Times reported on Sunday...
Vietnam seen as center for GE’s growth in SEA
The president of General Electric (GE) for South East Asia has underlined that the U.S. group places Vietnam as center for its growth in the region and can help develop human resources for global competition...
In Louisville, Ky., a city most of us associate with the Kentucky Derby and the famous company that makes baseball bats, the school district has been making impressive strides in how it educates tens of thousands of public school students. A $25 million grant from the GE Foundation has had a lot to do with it...
GE going full-throttle
GE Aviation notched another record year in 2007, booking $25.5 billion worth of new orders throughout the world...
EPA Extends Public Comment Period for the Ecological Risk Assessment for GE Pittsfield/Housatonic River Site
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended the public comment period for the recently-completed Ecological Risk Assessment for a major section of the Housatonic River in Massachusetts and Connecticut...
Eureka Forbes ties up with GE for clean water
The Shapoorji Pallonji group is betting big on the water business. Eureka Forbes, a wholly owned subsidiary of Shapoorji Pallonji group, is understood to have tied up with US infrastructure major GE Water for the expansion of its water filter business...
GE Unit Teams with SunPower on California Solar Projects
GE Energy Financial Services, a unit of GE, announced that it is partnering with SunPower Corp. -- a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems -- to provide financing for five California solar power projects...
GE to double renewable energy investment
General Electric will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...
GE to double its investments in renewable energy to $6bn by 2010
General Electric will today announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6bn by 2010 in the latest sign of a push by big companies to capitalise on concerns over global warming and pollution...
GE to double investments in renewable energies: FT
Diversified conglomerate General Electric Co. will on Monday announce plans to double its investments in renewable energies to $6 billion by 2010, the Financial Times reported on Sunday...
Vietnam seen as center for GE’s growth in SEA
The president of General Electric (GE) for South East Asia has underlined that the U.S. group places Vietnam as center for its growth in the region and can help develop human resources for global competition...
