Business Wire (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Portland General Electric Company (NYSE:POR) today reported net income of $39 million, or $0.63 per diluted share, for the three months ended June 30, 2008,
The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
For the past year, the media universe has been filled with rumors that General Electric would sell NBC Universal after the conclusion of the Beijing Olympics, which kick off this coming Friday night. But today Reuters reports that many major Wall Street investors now see the sale as unlikely. "What's changed their view?" reports Reuters. "The realization that with the second-largest U.S. company by...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. said Thursday that British Airways ordered two 777-300ER jetliners and secured options for up to four more. Boeing also said GE Commercial Aviation Services, a unit of General Electric Co. , bought two 777-300ERs that had previously been listed as unidentified orders. Market Pulse Stories are Rapid-fire, short news bursts on stocks and markets as they move....
Retro Thing (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Sometimes it's best not to keep up with the Joneses. Take 1978, for instance. Your spendthrift neighbors had just taken delivery of a monolithic new General Electric Widescreen 1000 projection TV and were showing it off to everyone who could...
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
In this week homework we will study, review, summarize and shed light on the objectives of the following cases: 1. Tapiola Insurance Group case. 2. General Electric case. Please provide a summary of the objectives defined in the case studies above. What were the companies in the cases studies trying...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
BOSTON (Reuters) - After more than a year of Wall Street chatter that General Electric would sell its NBC Universal media unit after broadcasting the Beijing Olympics, investors now say such a move seems unlikely.
Market Wire - Energy and Utilities (Free subscription) | yesterday
BANGALORE, INDIA (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- GE Energy, a subsidiary of General Electric Company (NYSE: GE) (Fairfield, Connecticut), has secured a contract from Cairn India Limited (BOM: 532792) (Gurgaon, Haryana) to supply 32 Jenbacher J420 GS gas engines for power generation for Cairn's upcoming crude oil pipeline. The engines will be installed at...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
GE Healthcare, the US$17 billion healthcare business of General Electric Company (GE), announces broadening the use of its LOGIQ e, a leading compact ultrasound system to the medical team of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE). This system will be used prior, during and after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, on all elite Spanish athletes.
The Business Review of Albany (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The niece of a former General Electric executive has sued Ellis Hospital for allegedly misusing charitable funds that were donated 40 years ago for nursing education.
Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
When Brackett Denniston became General Counsel of General Electric Co. four years ago, the company used 450 outside law firms. Denniston thought that many of those firms were not used enough for them to develop a strong feel for the...
Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Going against the wave of offshoring, General Electric’s law department has begun to handle many more patents in-house, "a change that produces more and better patents with no increase in expenses." No more details are in the article from Corp....
Law Department Management (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A brainchild of Brackett Denniston, the General Counsel of General Electric, is the so-called early-dispute-resolution program. According to Corp. Bd. Mbr., Vol. 11, July/Aug. 2008 at 76, "it has saved GE hundreds of millions of dollars in just three years...
Coatings World Breaking News (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Praxair Surface Technologies, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Praxair, Inc., has completed the expansion of its Indianapolis-based ceramic coating facility, which is used to coat aircraft engine components for General Electric (GE). The facilities capacity has been expanded by more than 50%. Using GE licensed technology Praxair Surface Technologies is now supplying increased volumes of electron beam-physical...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
The Company released this week its latest version of BioZport(R) ICG data management software which includes capabilities to automatically integrate and transfer BioZ(R) ICG data from the BioZ(R) Dx to GE Healthcare's Centricity(R) EMR system. This is a strategic advancement for the Company's flagship product as EMR interface and paperless workflow are increasingly becoming necessities to the outpatient...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Garanti Bankası, the Turkish bank partly owned by General Electric Co., may report that their second-quarter net income fell, after gains from sales of
