Africa is home to 12 of the 20 fastest-growing economies; its strong manufacturing, services and technology sectors are fueling economies around the globe. Africa is achieving these successes without being able to make full use of all its resources because access to electricity is still lacking in many areas.
GE and Pivotal said they built the first industrial-scale "data lake" system that could supercharge how companies store, manage and glean insight from information harvested from machines connected to the Industrial Internet.
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 8, 2014--- The Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest unveiled the 100 creative home cooks who will compete this fall for more than $1.3 million in cash and prizes. The 47th Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest will take place on Monday, November 3, 2014 in Nashville, Tenn.
by Annie Epstein
CHICAGO -- GE Capital today announced it is providing Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P. (NYSE: RNF) with a $50 million cash flow financing for a series of capacity expansion projects to support the partnership's future growth. The facility will also be available, if needed, for general partnership purposes. The partnership, headquartered in Los Angeles, is a leading provider of natural gas-based nitrogenous fertilizers, with manufacturing facilities located in East Dubuque, IL and Pasadena, TX.
Why don’t we suffocate whenever we try to take a breath? An international team of scientists has used quantum mechanics -- the science that usually deals with events at the level of the ultra-small -- to solve this human-sized mystery.
Two out of three people in Sub-Saharan Africa---that's nearly 600 million people---live today without access to electricity. As incomes and economies grow in Africa, and they are both growing quickly, this will generate massive demand for power access. This is a huge opportunity for Africans to pull themselves out of poverty and a substantial business opportunity that the United States can't afford to ignore. And right now is the moment to do something about it.
