The wave of Vine adverts from everyone from General Electric to Gap will mostly have been produced by digital marketing type agencies rather than in house, MacMillan says.
For global companies from DuPont to General Electric to Intel and IBM, nanotechnology is it.
The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors' EV1 electric car and Toyota's electric RAV4.
Happily, in many ways, very large companies from Caterpillar to Duke Energy to General Electric are getting way out front.
These alternatives can be applied to anything from a bowling club to General Electric.
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The stock market, which always moves three to six months ahead of the economy, had already bottomed in March, 2009 and was in its next bull market, even as the future of companies from General Motors to General Electric, AIG and Citigroup was seriously in doubt.
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The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )' EV1 electric car and Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s electric RAV4.
Carson gained control of the show's tapes--except for the episodes that aired from 1962 and 1972, which were erased to save on storage costs--from General Electric 's NBC in a host of unprecedented negotiations over the course of his 30-year tenure.
Carson gained control of the show's tapes--except for the episodes that aired from 1962 and 1972, which were erased to save on storage costs--from General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC in a host of unprecedented negotiations over the course of his 30-year tenure.
According to first-quarter 2011 quarterly reports, effective tax rates among the giants varied from 53 percent at General Electric ( GE) to 13 percent at Microsoft ( MSFT).
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The greatest public speakers, from Steve Jobs to Winston Churchill to former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch, tell stories to get their points across, rather than relying on statistics on PowerPoint slides.
It's taken six years, but with the pending sale of his company's plastics business, CEO JeffreyImmeltJeffrey Immelt has essentially completed what he sees as General Electric's transformation from a staid manufacturer to a high-margin services company.
In May and in June, Merkel traveled to the U.S. without fanfare (declining media interviews), to meet in closed-door sessions with U.S. industry leaders, from Coca-Cola chief NevilleIsdellNeville Isdell to General Electric 's JeffreyImmelt Jeffrey Immelt to Henry Paulson, then the chair of Goldman Sachs Group.
His political transformation had clear markers, going from head of the Screen Actors Guild to spokesman for General Electric.
Comcast Corp. announced Tuesday that it plans to buy the rest of NBCUniversal from General Electric Co. years ahead of schedule.
General Electric is expected to obtain good financial benefits from these activities, and China will build its technology base.
In contrast, its competitor General Electric reallocated capital from commodity plays that had paid in the 1970s to new real enterprises like magnetic resonance machine-manufacturing, betting that discretionary income for health care was going to soar with the coming rise in affluence.
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Last year, General Electric paid no federal income taxes due to write downs from previous losses from its financial arm GE Capital during the 2008 credit crisis.
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For example, operating companies such as American Airlines, Bechtel, Caterpillar, General Dynamics and General Electric all established affiliated money management firms to earn fees from managing the retirement assets of their employees.
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The company can also lean on a trade group, the U.S. Fuel Cell Council, whose members range from specialty companies like Fuel Cell Energy and Ballard Power Systems to giants like General Electric and United Technologies.
General Electric bought RCA in 1986 in a belated effort to benefit from the Reagan military buildup, but sold the military part of the business to Lockheed Martin during the defense-sector consolidation that followed the end of the Cold War.
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In 2006, a professor and entrepreneur named Jan-Olaf Willums and his partners bought Think and retooled it to produce an electric car for the Internet age, attracting investment from General Electric among other blue-chip investors.
That isn't quite true: At General Electric, Welch went to elaborate lengths over six years to groom a successor from a handful of clear finalists.
General Electric paid nothing in taxes last year due to write-offs associated with losses from its financial services arm, GMAC.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
General Electric's CEO, JeffImmeltJeff Immelt, has sought to drag his company's finances away from GE Capital by expanding into other businesses in emerging markets.
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