Using Internet technologies, GE can make its machines much more efficient and productive, Immelt said.
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Providing better connectivity, data and analytics, GE can make its products and services much better, Immelt said.
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But Apple offers the kind of growth prospects that the shareholders of Exxon Mobil and GE can only dream of.
And as a result, young people can find work, GE can fill high-skill positions, and the entire region has become more attractive to businesses.
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That casts some uncertainty over whether GE Capital can pay a dividend to its parent company.
The Growth Entrepreneur (GE) can take two shapes in my opinion.
Designed to be used with Xbox 360, PS3 and PC game systems where SPDIF and surround sound audio are used, HD PVR 2 GE Plus can record the surround sound audio along with the game play in HD.
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But the activists are unsatisfied with heavy regulatory burdens that require nearly a decade of extensive environmental and consumer safety testing before a new GE crop can be put on the market, a phenomenon that has made it far too expensive to use the technology to improve any but the largest-scale commodity crops.
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Unlike many Silicon Valley enthusiasts with DNA in consumer product markets, GE understands and can penetrate the institutional inertia in industrial markets.
Below is a long-term dividend history chart for GE, which can be of good help in judging whether the most recent dividend with approx. 3.4% annualized yield is likely to continue.
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Through GE Capital, customers can take advantage of equipment financing products that can help mitigate up-front expense challenges.
By making it straightforward to license patented traits, Syngenta can support GE innovation while concurrently reducing the growing risk of gene piracy.
Besides sticking its hand out in Washington for higher reimbursement rates, GE is doing all it can to keep existing customers.
We can go to Thorium, we can go to the new Westinghouse designers, we can go to the GE designs.
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With GE shares 28% lower now, Immelt can't go back to the equity market for more money.
On Tuesday, Tepco requested 10 GE truck-mounted gas turbines, which can provide temporary power, for use in the emergency-response effort.
But like GE's Welch, Mittal thinks he can be just as efficient as the dot-coms at running his own exchange.
Bulriss doesn't pretend he can transform Great Lakes into a mini-GE.
Unlike banks, which have two-thirds of their liabilities in sticky, low-cost deposits, GE gets most of its funding from commercial paper and bonds that can become expensive or inaccessible in a crisis.
Once GE firmly establishes a formula for when and why a corporate insider can buy or sell stock, it will remove potential suspicion that a top official was acting on inside information.
Who owns seeds, GE or natural, who owns patents on traits or core technologies, and who can get access to these resources and tools are real and growing concerns.
By early next year GE will have enough data from the test factory to know just how efficient the process can be.
"We're committed to helping our customers learn what electric vehicles can do for their organizations, " said Clarence Nunn, President and CEO of GE Capital Fleet Services.
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Loyalty cards can be another source of data, said Cox, who has run them on four continents for GE Money Global.
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Meanwhile, cable outlets can claim success with some 4 million viewers (think General Electric -owned (nyse: GE - news - people ) Bravo's Project Runway and Viacom -owned (nyse: VIA - news - people ) MTV's The Hills).
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