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From Appliances To Apps: GE To Sell Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.4 Billion

January 15, 2016
GE said this morning it would sell its Appliances business to Haier for $5.4 billion. The company will also enter into a strategic partnership with the Asian white goods manufacturer to work on projects involving the industrial Internet, healthcare and advanced manufacturing.
“We are proud of Appliances’ history and performance,” said Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO. “GE Appliances is performing well and there was significant interest from potential buyers, helping drive a good deal which will benefit our investors, customers and employees.”
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GE

Boston Bound: GE Will Move Its Headquarters to Massachusetts

Tomas Kellner
January 13, 2016
Seeking Boston’s “diverse and technologically-fluent” talent, GE said it would move its corporate headquarters to the Massachusetts capital from Connecticut, where it’s been based for four decades. “Today, GE is a $130 billion high-tech global industrial company, one that is leading the digital transformation of industry," said GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. "We want to be at the center of an ecosystem that shares our aspirations."
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power

Ultra Super Critical: These Badass Machines Help Make 30 Percent Of The World’s Power

Tomas Kellner
January 07, 2016
When GE acquired Alstom’s power and grid business last fall, it bought some of world’s largest wind and water turbines, “ultra-super-critical” steam turbines - that's their real name - massive generators and other advanced technology for making lots of electricity. So much so that with Alstom, GE technology can now generate one third of the world’s power.
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Africa

Mind The Gap: Here’s How You Take On A Power Crisis The Size Of A Continent

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
One easy way to see Africa’s power problem is by looking at a picture of the Earth from space at night. While other inhabited regions of the world glow and sparkle like jewels in a black velvet display case, Africa remains largely dark. That’s because the continent’s 1.1 billion inhabitants have at their disposal just 185 gigawatts (GW) of installed power-generation capacity. The United States, by comparison, can draw on 1,000 GW for 300 million people.
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Renewable Power

Let It Blow: How Brazilian Wind Farms Benefit From GE’s Largest Acquisition

Tomas Kellner
January 06, 2016
South America’s vast Pampas stretch over three countries and cover an area larger than France. Farmers in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have long discovered the appeal of the flat and fertile lowlands. Wind farm operators, especially in Brazil, the continent’s largest economy, are now taking a second look.
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best of 2015

Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition

Tomas Kellner
January 04, 2016
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet traveled to the high plains of Colorado to document how GE was testing its most advanced locomotive, pilot and photographer Adam Senatori visited three airshows on as many continents to get close to the latest planes powered by GE jet engines, and Chris New climbed to the top of an experimental wind turbine in the Mojave desert.
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best of 2015

2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution

Tomas Kellner
Timothy Cheng
December 30, 2015
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the world’s largest digital industrial company by selling GE Capital assets valued at more than $100 billion.
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best of 2015

19 Tech Stories From 2015 You Should Know About

Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
There were many tech stories that caught our eye in 2015. Here are 19 examples that either touch on GE technology and research or received funding from the company. They stretch from the depths of the human genome to edge of the solar system. Take a look:
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Personalized Medicine

From the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s Cyclotron Factory

Tomas Kellner
December 26, 2015
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize and scientists today still use its offspring to get to the bottom of matter and even the universe itself.
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Big Data

Going Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code Into the Bathroom

December 22, 2015
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now rely on software-enabled technology to take out some of the pain.
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