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For John Tolva, IBM's Chicago-based director of citizenship and technology, the value of his four-week assignment to Ghana last year really hit him during a game of Scrabble by candlelight. He and teammates from India, Germany, Brazil, and other countries...
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CEO Jeff Immelt , Tuesday gave an audience at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco the first public viewing of the company's new pocket-sized device, dubbed Vscan, that's designed for point-of-care imaging. Though Immelt couldn't say how much the Vscan...
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The future of ultrasound technology, as interpreted by General Electric Co., looks a bit like a flip phone crossed with an iPod. GE CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled a handheld ultrasound machine at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Tuesday called the Vscan,...
GE had in May said it planned to invest three billion dollars in research and development(R&D), with a primary motive of reducing the cost of its products and operating them. The strategic move would help in effective management, resource mobilisation...
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General Electric Co. launched its "Healthymagination" initiative Thursday in hopes of building a thematic presence in health care on par with its four-year-old "Ecomagination" campaign around environmental concerns. "Health care needs new solutions,"...
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The top executive of General Electric Co. said Wednesday he couldn't predict when the recession would end or how bad it will be, but said the global economic crisis has "fundamentally reset" the way companies do business and capitalism itself. Speaking...
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Profit from continuing operations declined 35 per cent to $2.83 billion, or 26 cents a share, from $4.35 billion, or 43 cents, a year earlier, the Fairfield, Connecticut-based company said in a statement today. GE rose in early trading after the results...
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We simply do not have enough facilities, doctors or nurses to provide quality health care for this aging population," Otellini said, noting the reason Intel and GE are eager to find ways to keep people in their homes, and out of the health-care system.
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GE, which had long resisted cutting its divided, said the move would save it $9bn a year. The news hit the company's share price, with stocks sinking 6.5% to $8.51. "We recognise the importance of the dividend to our shareholders and the significance...
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Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt passed up a $12 million bonus in 2008, a year that saw company's stock price slide 56% amid a global economic crisis and declining profits at GE. "Earnings came in below where we expected," Mr. Immelt wrote in a note Wednesday,...
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