Ben Fry at SXSW 2010: Visualizing data challengesMar 16, 2010
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Milwaukee clinics upping access with new grantsMar 15, 2010
With nearly 16 percent of the U.S. population living without health insurance -- or 45 million people -- the lack of access to quality care is a problem that continues to grow. It's one of the reasons why GE, as part of its healthymagination initiative, committed to a 3-year, $25...
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Bolze at CERA: Driving toward a clean energy economyMar 12, 2010
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Broadway boogie: Cell art winners light Times SquareMar 11, 2010
Glittering Broadway marquees and flashing neon are the norm in New York City’s Times Square. But each year, three scientists get to join the dazzling display when their winning entries from GE Healthcare’s IN Cell Image Competition are broadcast on NBC’s giant high-definition TV screen. This year’s competition featured over...
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Navistar & GE Capital: Loaded up and truckin’Mar 10, 2010
The movies are filled with great trucking teams -- from Burt Reynolds and Jerry Reed in “Smokey and the Bandit” to Kris Kristofferson and an army of drivers in “Convoy.” Now transport finance can add Navistar International and GE Capital to the list of road warriors. In a new alliance,...
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Powered by innovation: AEP’s gridSMART projectMar 09, 2010
Our story yesterday turned the spotlight on GE’s R&D and the way in which sustained technology investments, even in an economic downturn, translate into new products with huge potential. As described in GE’s just-released online Annual Report, new product introductions are one side of the equation. The other is how...
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Twenty thousand patents this decade, and counting…Mar 08, 2010
Making GE an “industrial company first” and pushing our competitive advantage in technology -- they’re key themes at GE in 2010 and ones that take center stage in a new letter to shareholders in this year’s Annual Report. “In 2010, we will spend about 5 percent of our industrial revenue...
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Sipping on sun-water at SOS Children’s Village in HaitiMar 05, 2010
As we recently reported, 10 of GE’s solar-powered water purification units were shipped to earthquake-stricken Haiti to help with the country’s desperate needs for clean water. Now, seven of the Sunspring units are up and running -- with each able to provide safe water for up to 10,000 people per...
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Paper cuts: Healthcare IT takes center stageMar 04, 2010
Doctors from around the world have been turning their attention to the latest breakthroughs in healthcare IT this week at the annual meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society in Atlanta, Georgia. Featuring one of the year’s biggest tech expos, the conference is a chance for the society’s...
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A monster of a deal gets bigger: Gorgon passes $1.1BMar 03, 2010
In Greek mythology, “gorgons” such as Medusa were terrifying creatures who could turn you to stone with just a look. Sitting off the north coast of Western Australia, the Greater Gorgon gas fields certainly have the ability to leave energy experts frozen in their tracks, as the area is estimated...
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