The South East Asia Haze: Cause and Effects
A thick, acrid haze has smothered Malaysia, Indonesia and regional neighbour Singapore once again this year, as Indonesia’s annual burning sends clouds of smoke billowing over the region.
As Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo recently announced, even having sent 3,700 soldiers and 8,000 police officers to address the problem, tackling the fire and reducing the root cause of the haze could take years. So what do we know about the haze and its effects?
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GE: A Simpler, More Valuable Digital Industrial Company
The investment underscores GE’s focus on improving margins and returns, reducing costs and the size of corporate, returning capital to shareholders and realigning its portfolio.
Here’s a snapshot of GE’s strategy, portfolio actions, and how the company is performing.
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GE Capital Nears $100 Billion in Asset Sales As GE Transforms
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Found: This Old GE Comic Book Tells the Whole Incredible Story of the Birth of the Jet Age
Big Data is the Big Idea Behind the Brilliant Factory Revolution
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Paul Rogers: Why Cyber Risk Should Be Treated Like an Unlocked Car
Instead of trying to guess the risk of cyber attacks, companies should view their industrial assets like an unlocked car — and simply focus on stopping attacks from occurring in the first place.
Part of my job is to evangelize the need for cyber security solutions to protect industrial control systems (ICS). In many instances, when I meet with executives from companies who own or operate industrial technology, they are already aware that their control systems are at risk from cyber attacks.
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Marco Annunziata: The Industrial App Economy Is Ready for Its Download
The industrial app economy will spur innovation by enabling a more seamless environment for people and machines to work smarter and more efficiently together.
We live in a world of apps. They have become so pervasive in our daily experience that we don’t even think about it anymore: an app wakes us in the morning, and another app reports the quality of our sleep; we use apps to move around town, book restaurants and movies, track our weight and physical activity, meet friends, stream music and keep up with the news. Life is an app.
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Let’s Get Connected: GE Digital Chief Bill Ruh Talks About Intelligent Machines and Our Optimized Future
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A Scientist Walks Into the GE Store: Sharing Ideas Helps Engineers Leapfrog Competition
It was an inauspicious beginning for one of the largest corporate research institutions in the world. GE Global Research now employs 3,000 people and runs nine labs in the United States, Brazil, China, Germany, India and Israel.
