FAIRFIELD, Conn. - July 31, 2014 - GE [NYSE: GE] Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt made the following statement today:
“Today, we successfully executed the IPO of our North American Retail Finance business, Synchrony Financial. This is an exciting time for the Synchrony Financial team, and we are proud to be SYF shareholders.
When the Audax Group acquired Aavid Thermaloy, a top maker of heat sinks and cooling systems for everything from PCs to EVs, in late 2012, the private equity firm used a loan from GE Capital to close the transaction. Sounds like a plain vanilla financing deal, but it did not stop there.
One sunny Thursday afternoon last October, Lyman Connor climbed on his bicycle and pedaled from his Roanoke, Va., home for a ride along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway. He didn't make it back that day.
When Amanda Boxtel, executive director of the Bridging Bionics Foundation, crushed her vertebrae in a skiing accident 22 years ago, she had to get used to life permanently confined in a wheelchair.
When Amanda Boxtel, executive director of the Bridging Bionics Foundation, crushed her vertebrae in a skiing accident 22 years ago, she had to get used to life permanently confined in a wheelchair.
The world's once hidden hotspots of biodiversity are coming into view thanks to some pioneering work that is bringing conservation into the age of Big Data.
At the heart of the tokamak are giant D-shaped magnets that will confine 150 million degree C plasma. This is where fusion will take place.
The magnets are comprised of toroidal field coils, each of which is made of seven subassemblies called double pancakes.
The unicorn is perhaps unique among myths in that the creature doesn't appear in the mythology of any culture. The ancient Greeks, for all of their centaurs, hydras and medusas, never had any stories of unicorns, they simply believed that some existed somewhere.
