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GE Scientists Develop Battery-free, Multi-Detection Wireless Sensors

October 14, 2008

Home food and beverage safety monitoring, remote water purity testing, more effective chemical and biological sensors all potential applications

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced a battery-free, multi-detection radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensing platform that could enable a wide range of low cost wireless sensing products in healthcare, security, food packaging, water treatment and pollution prevention. GE's unique RFID sensors are built on traditional RFID tags.

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GE Brings "The Energy Story Laboratory" to Navy Pier October 18-19

October 13, 2008

--(BUSINESS WIRE)--General Electric (NYSE:GE):

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The Energy Story Laboratory presented by GE offers an interactive, educational, Halloween-themed good time for families visiting historic Navy Pier® the third weekend of October. It complements the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's "Change the World, Start with ENERGY STAR®" campaign and tour, as well as the 30x50-foot ENERGY STAR Home Exhibit the EPA brings to Navy Pier October 18-19.

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GE Healthcare Showcases Real-Time Imaging Technologies to Help Fight Heart Disease at TCT 2008

October 13, 2008

Twentieth Anniversary Conference to See Debut of Game-changing Products, Partnerships to Help Physicians Combat Disease

Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Symposium

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GE Reports Third Quarter 2008 Earnings of $4.5 billion; Revenues of $47.2 billion, up 11%; Infrastructure Orders of $23 billion, up 9%; On Track to Earn ~$20 billion in 2008

October 10, 2008

3Q 2008 Earnings In Line with 9/25/08 Revised Guidance (Continuing Operations)

Third Quarter 2008 Forecast Actual Table

Board-approved plan to maintain dividend at $1.24 per share through 2009

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Lorraine Bolsinger Named President and CEO of GE Aviation Systems;Steve Fludder Named Vice President, ecomagination

October 06, 2008

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--06 October 2008-- GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt today named Lorraine Bolsinger president and CEO of GE Aviation Systems, LLC. Immelt also announced that Steve Fludder has been named head of ecomagination, GE's sustainable business strategy, succeeding Bolsinger.

Bolsinger, 49, is a 27-year veteran of GE and since 2005 has served as vice president of ecomagination, which in 2007 reached $14 billion in revenues and $70 billion in orders.

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GE ecomaginationSM Homebuilder Program Continues to Add Builders and Developers Despite Challenging Housing Market

October 06, 2008

LOUISVILLE, Ky.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The GE ecomagination Homebuilder Program, introduced in May 2007, continues to build momentum as more builders and developers sign on. The program helps residential builders and developers design homes that are not only comfortable, but that result in the release of fewer household emissions and are more efficient in their energy consumption and indoor water consumption than industry-accepted average new homes.

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GE ecomaginationSM Homebuilder Program Continues to Add Builders and Developers Despite Challenging Housing Market

October 06, 2008

Consumer Focus III, Eco-Consumer

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GE Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering

October 02, 2008

FAIRFIELD, Conn., October 2, 2008 -- GE today announced that it priced an offering of 547,825,000 shares of its common stock at $22.25 per share. To the extent that the underwriters sell more than 547,825,000 shares of common stock, the underwriters have the option to purchase from GE up to an additional 82,173,750 shares.

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GE Announces Common Stock Offering; Warren Buffett Announces Investment In GE

October 01, 2008

FAIRFIELD, Conn.---October 1, 2008-- GE today announced plans to offer at least $12 billion of common stock to the public. The underwriters will have a 30-day option to purchase shares representing an additional 15%of the offering amount from GE to cover over allotments, if any. The offering is expected to be priced prior to tomorrow's market open in the U.S.

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GE Revises 2008 Guidance; Reaffirms Commitment to Triple-A Credit Rating; Expects to Earn Approximately $20 Billion in 2008; Maintaining Annual Dividend of $1.24 per Share through 2009

September 25, 2008

* Revises guidance for third quarter and full year 2008 in view of financial services markets volatility
* Expects to earn approximately $20 billion for the year
* Industrial earnings to remain strong in third quarter, up 10-15%, led by infrastructure businesses, excluding Consumer & Industrial
* Expects financial services earnings in third quarter to be approximately $2 billion and more than $9 billion for 2008

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