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Jack Myers' Five Emerging Principles for Redefining Advertising and Marketing Effectiveness

Jack Myers | Posted 11.18.2008 | Business

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Jack Myers

Marketers, agencies and media companies are struggling to come to grips with the economic downturn, but the economy is camouflaging their most compell...

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GE Reinvents The Refrigerator

Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 10.30.2008 | Green

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Over the past few years we have waited for GE's ecomagination to change from pretty pictures to reality, and now we are beginning to see the results....

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GE Profit Falls 22 Percent

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

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HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings on Friday...

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Warren Buffett To Invest $3B In GE, Similar Perks To His Goldman Deal

MarketWatch | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

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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 re...

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Stocks rise on bailout hopes; credit remains tight

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Financial markets grew more upbeat Thursday as political leaders said they struck an agreement in principle on a massive spending pla...

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GE cuts forecast, citing wounded financing unit

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business

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HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co., the industrial powerhouse that makes everything from jet engines to light bulbs, cut its earnings foreca...

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Google CEO Identifies Top Two World Priorities

Steven Crandell | Posted 09.22.2008 | Green

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Steven Crandell

The nuclear status quo is dangerous. If we do nothing, the chance of a nuclear weapon being detonated only grows higher.

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THE LATEST: $25 BILLION FOR DETROIT; PRODUCTION CHEVY VOLT PLUG-IN HYBRID UNVEILED

Steve Parker | Posted 09.18.2008 | Green

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Steve Parker

Today's Detroit News newspaper reports that, because big investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase own huge amounts of GM and Ford cor...

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The Arabs Are Coming, the Arabs Are Coming

Zachary Karabell | Posted 07.22.2008 | Green

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Zachary Karabell

General Electric and the government of Abu Dhabi announced an $8 billion joint venture for commercial finance in the Middle East, which will grow to $40 billion in the coming years to support a carbon-neutral city in the desert.

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Jeff Zucker: NBC Will Not Be Spun Off

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 07.11.2008 | Media

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SUN VALLEY, Idaho — General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off ...

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GE Profit Falls 6 Percent: Time To Sell More Businesses

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 07.11.2008 | Business

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HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. reverted to form with no big surprises in its latest earnings report, and investors shocked by an unexpec...

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GE Needs To Sell More Businesses, Says Analyst

New York Times | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business

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General Electric has already sold off a baker's dozen of units, including the plastics unit where two of its former chief executives once worked. And ...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

General Electric remains skeptical about the role of C02 in driving climate change, a NASA report confirms political censorship of climate data, and the VA Secretary says concerns about PTSD 'overblown.'

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GE To Slash Water Use 20 Percent

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

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BEIJING — General Electric Co. will cut its global water use by 20 percent over five years, CEO Jeff Immelt said Wednesday. Immelt also spoke o...

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The O'Reilly vs. Olbermann Smackdown

John McQuaid | Posted 05.19.2008 | Media

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John McQuaid

Once, Fox thought it had the market cornered on over-the-top populist outrage. No more. Hence the logic to the idea that Olbermann must be destroyed.

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GE confirms plans to exit appliance business

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.16.2008 | Business

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NEW HAVEN, Conn. _ General Electric Co. plans to sell or spin off the business that for a century has put appliances in American homes, a decision tha...

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GE Set To Sell Appliance Business

AP | Posted 05.15.2008 | Business

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FAIRFIELD, Conn. — General Electric Co. plans to auction off its Louisville, Ky.-based appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wed...

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Olympic Sponsors Face Activist Protests

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business

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BEIJING — An activist group will organize protests against Beijing Olympics sponsors that it says have failed to press China to help end fightin...

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Jack Welch: His Final Transformation Isn't Pretty

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business

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<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Was Jack helping GE by doing this? Is there any objective, rational reason that such statement be made as the company is trying to fight its way out of a problem that we are ALL suffering from at this point? In a word, NO.

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Consumer Confidence Hits 26-Year Low

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2008 | Business

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Disappointing first-quarter earnings from General Electric Co (GE.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and a drop in U.S. consumer confidence to its lowest in...

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"Shocking" GE Results Prove Depth Of Financial Crisis

Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera, Justin Baer | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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General Electric underlined the depth of the global financial crisis on Friday, announcing its worst quarter in five years and slashing full-year fore...

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Stocks Fall Sharply Following GE Results

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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NEW YORK — Wall Street stumbled Friday after a disappointing first-quarter report from General Electric Co. surprised the market and stoked conc...

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GE's Shocking Tumble: Analysts React

Wall Street Journal | http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/04/11/analysts-react-ges-miss/?mod=WSJBlog | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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Wall Street analysts, at least in their research, tend to display a measured tone, but General Electric Co.'s surprising earnings miss has brought out...

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Feeble GE Profits Shake Markets

Bloomberg | Raychel Lane | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business

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General Electric Co. reported its first decline in quarterly profit since 2003, missing analyst estimates with a 12 percent drop in earnings as a free...

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General Electric: Killing Chinese Workers For A Cleaner Environment

Jonathan Tasini | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

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Jonathan Tasini

A report released a few days ago by Policy Matters Ohio investigated production of compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) at a plant in China in which GE has a significant stake. It's a great notion to replace the energy-sucking incandescent light bulbs with CFLs but what is the price?

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