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24/7 Wall St. (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) has a unique speech with what will seem like some very new direction occurring today. Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt has prepared a speech for delivery to the United States Military Academy at West Point for its Distinguished Leader Series, the Black and Gold Forum. Immelt discussed “the reset button” [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
BOSTON (Reuters) - The United States stands at the end of a generation when greed drove leaders and "rewards became perverted," General Electric Co Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said in a speech at West Point on Wednesday.
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ABC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
GE CEO Jeff Immelt tells SC university audience that green technology can provide jobs, growth General Electric - Technology - Wallonia - Liège - Belgium
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Around the time GE's Jeffrey Immelt decided it was the right time to sell a controlling interest in NBCU, he was also meeting with Fox News chairman Roger Ailes trying to broker a ceasefire between Ailes' network and MSNBC. As the NYTimes reported yesterday , the Comcast deal came to pass this summer during the Allen & Company media summit: The secret meeting was set for an early...
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Deadline Hollywood Daily (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
This morning's press call is scheduled for 7:30 AM Pacific Time by Comcast Chairman/CEO Brian Roberts, GE Chairman/CEO Jeff Immelt, Comcast COO Steve Burke, and NBC Universal President/CEO Jeff Zucker. There was an earlier conference call for investors at 5:30 AM PT wiith Roberts, Burke, and Angelakis. More info coming as I get to it. (Ugh, it's early...)
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The Reasoned Sceptic (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
An article headline in Friday's Wall Street Journal reveals the hidden, true cost of both former CEO Jack Welch's and his successor, Jeff Immelt's insistence that GE's entertainment unit, NBC/Universal. It read, "GE to Invest in Industrial Businesses," with the sub-headline, "Cash From NBC Deal Will Help Burnish Aviation, Health-Care and Energy Units." It doesn't take...
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The Liberal Doomsayer (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Keith Olbermann, and we don’t have any problem with that. But in this world — we saw Jeff Immelt get dragged into something. Jeff Immelt was committed to letting Keith Olbermann be Keith Olbermann too, and all of a sudden, for a month, he’s a national story. So I think that’s going to be an adjustment for us. That’s going to be a challenge...
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Philadelphia Tech News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... Affirms Comcast's IDR at 'BBB+'; Outlook Stable (Business Wire) CNBC interviews Brian Roberts and Jeff Immelt (CNBC) Conyers calls for Comcast-NBC hearings (Politico) STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER COPPS ON THE COMCAST/GENERAL ELECTRIC ANNOUNCEMENT (FCC) (pdf) permalink
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Forbes (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Forget growth--General Electric's Jeff Immelt is on a mission to raise cash now.
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
The LATimes' Joe Flint has a brief readout on Jeff Zucker 's town hall meeting yesterday at 30 Rock with his soon-to-be new bosses from Comcast: the Roberts -- father and son -- Comcast COO Steve Burke , to whom Zucker will report directly, and GE CEO Jeff Immelt , who can go back to worrying about jet engines, refrigerators, credit services and PreDictor plates. Asked why this...
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New York Post (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Jeff Immelt will no longer have entertainment flops to blame for General Electric's troubles. All during GE's worst year on record, the GE chairman and CEO, along with his numbers people, publicly cited the ups and downs of show business for helpi...
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Comcast ( NSDQ: CMCSA ) CEO Brian Roberts and GE CEO Jeff Immelt spent nearly 30 minutes this morning on CNBC—one of the assets Comcast hopes to control by this time next year.
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Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
... the Hulu strategy when they meet with the media by phone later this morning, along with GE CEO Jeff Immelt and NBCU CEO Jeff Zucker. Check back for updates.
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Financial Times (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
General Electric will eventually reap more than $8bn from the spin-off of NBC Universal, giving Jeff Immelt, the conglomerate's chief executive, his first opportunity in several years to rev up what was once one of corporate America's most prolific deal-making machines