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GE's FirstBuild Mega Hackathon Delivers "Wow" Home Appliance Concepts

April 13, 2015

Teams Create What’s Next in Home Appliances

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From these seeds, new touchscreens and solar cells may grow....

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From these seeds, new touchscreens and solar cells may grow....

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From these seeds, new touchscreens and solar cells may grow. Duke University chemists are working with copper oxide nanoparticles--each in the pic above is less than a micron wide--to grow copper nanowires. The process could one day allow transparent conductive films made of copper nanowires to supplement or replace the more expensive material now used in touchscreens and photovoltaic solar panels. 

Txch This Week: Ingredients for Alien Life and Robot-Making...

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Txch This Week: Ingredients for Alien Life and Robot-Making...

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Txch This Week: Ingredients for Alien Life and Robot-Making Ink

This week on Txchnologist, we learned about unusual advances that could help MRIs detect cancer, a plan to remove tons of plastic garbage from the ocean and a robot explorer that successfully swam under Antarctica's ice sheet.

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GE To Create Simpler, More Valuable Industrial Company By Selling Most GE Capital Assets; Potential To Return More Than $90 Billion To Investors Through 2018 In Dividends, Buyback & Synchrony Exchange

April 10, 2015
  • High-value industrials to comprise more than 90% of GE earnings by 2018
  • Plans to retain financing “verticals” that relate to GE’s industrial businesses
  • Announces sale of GE Capital Real Estate assets for approximately $26.5 billion
  • Will work with regulators to terminate GE Capital’s SIFI designation
  • GE to take approximately $16 billion after-tax charge in 1Q’15, $12 billion non-cash
  • Industrial businesses remain on track for operating earnings per share of $1.10-$1.20 in 2015, in line with
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If You Build It, Will They Come?

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If You Build It, Will They Come?

Chile's innovation experiment shows the challenges of trying to recreate Silicon Valley locally.

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Four years ago, Chile launched an innovation experiment: If they convinced entrepreneurs to set up shop in Chile, would a successful innovation ecosystem follow? They're not alone. As investors look beyond Silicon Valley, governments around the world are asking themselves the same question.

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