May 22, 2013

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Protesters Pour Into Detroit For GE Stockholders' Meeting

Reuters | Posted 06.25.2012 | Detroit

* Several hundred assemble outside meeting * Protesters call on GE to "pay your fair share" * "We pay our taxes," says G...

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'We Totally Pay Taxes'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 04.26.2012 | Business

General Electric's CEO has a message for people angry about reports that the company isn't paying enough in taxes: Move along, nothing to see here. ...

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1% Vs. 99% Battle Comes to GE Detroit Shareholder Meeting Tomorrow

Dave Johnson | Posted 06.24.2012 | Detroit

Read More: Manufacturing, Roger & Me, Ge, Plutocracy, GE Detroit, Detroit News

The cause of our terrible economic inequality is clear: the 1% have too much power, and use that power to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us -- the 99%.

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'99 Percent' Get Set To Protest GE

Reuters | Posted 06.24.2012 | Detroit

Read More: 99 Percent, General Electric, Uaw, Ge Shareholders Meeting Detroit, Reuters, Occupy Wall Street, Bob King, Ge Shareholders Meeting, Ge, Detroit News

* GE shareholders to meet in Detroit on Wednesday * "99 Percent" group says to protest low GE tax bill * GE CFO says "tr...

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GE Profits Plunge

Reuters | Posted 06.20.2012 | Business

Read More: Earnings, Video, Profit, Revenue, Conglomerate, Reuters, Mortgage Crisis, Ireland, Jeff Immelt, Ge, General Electric Co, Business News

April 20 (Reuters) - General Electric Co posted an 11.6 percent decline in quarterly profit, weighed down by a charge for the company's exit of its ...

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Social Ethics: A Peek Into 2012

Linda Novick O'Keefe | Posted 06.04.2012 | Business

Read More: Walmart, Walmart Foundation, Ge, Julie Gehrki, DeShele Dorsey, Bob Corcoran, Corporate Philanthropy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Changing Our World, Fedex, Twitter, Red Cross, Dell, General Mills, Western Union, Facebook, Csr, Business Ethics, Business News

Business as usual is changing. Or at least the way business leaders think about philanthropy is changing.

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Jay-Z, a Social Fridge and Cats vs. Humans: The Best Brand Activations at SXSW 2012

Matthew Knell | Posted 05.16.2012 | Technology

Read More: Matthew Knell, Friskies, American Express, SXSW Interactive, Spotsi, AOL Advertising, Sxsw, Pepsico, Ge, South by Southwest 2012, SXSW 2012, South by Southwest, Technology News

Marketers were out in force again this year, competing in a noisier than ever atmosphere. But for me, the brands who "won" SXSW were the ones who cut through the noise by telling their brand stories in the most actionable way possible.

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Major CEO's Pay Takes Huge Plunge

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 03.10.2012 | Business

-- General Electric Co. Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt's compensation fell 24 percent in 2011 after it spiked in 2010. GE, which makes products ran...

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GE Breaks Law, Avoids Taxes. Gets Billions From Gov't, Avoids Taxes. Gets White House Post -- Ah, You Know The Rest.

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 04.28.2012 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Ge, Corporate Tax Reform, Citizens for Tax Justice, Jeffrey Immelt, Politics News

GE has probably avoided paying its fair share of taxes in a "legal" way -- if the word "legal" can be used to describe a system where corporations pay for the privilege of influencing politicians to bend the law in their favor.

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General Electric Paid A Tiny, Tiny Tax Rate This Decade

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 03.18.2013 | Business

Read More: Boeing, General Electric, Video, Verizon, General Electric Lobbyists, General Electric Taxes, Corporate Tax Rate, Wells Fargo, Lobbyists, GE Taxes, Corporate Tax Breaks, Corporate Tax Loopholes, Corporate Taxes, Dupont, Barack Obama, Ge, Business News

General Electric again finds itself the focus of a politically-charged battle over corporate taxes. A new analysis of the mega-corporation's tax f...

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GE Launches Program Aimed At Hiring Thousands Of Veterans

AP | Posted 04.14.2012 | Business

Read More: General Electric Jobs, General Electric, General Electric Hiring, Video, Veterans Jobs, Ge Hiring Our Heros, Veteran Unemployment, Business News, Obama Jobs Council, Veterans, Ge, Business News

WASHINGTON — General Electric Co. plans to hire 5,000 veterans over the next five years and invest $580 million to expand its aviation business....

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12 Reasons To Avoid GMOs

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.01.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Maria Rodale, Gmo Food, Monsanto, Alberto Gonzalez, Ge, GE Food, Right to Know, Organic Food, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Just Label It, Gustorganics, Gmo, Healthy Living News

by guest blogger Alberto Gonzalez, founder and CEO of GustOrganics I love talking to people about food. And these days at my restaurant, I inevi...

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Gloves Come Off in Genetically Engineered Food Fight

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 03.27.2012 | Parents

Read More: Salmon, Ge, Gmo, Fda, Just Label It, Genetically Engineered Salmon, Genetically Engineered Foods, Parents News

When is a salmon not a salmon? It sounds ridiculous, but that's one of the most important issues in the food world, where the gloves are off in the fight about genetically engineered foods.

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GE Ordered To Defend Lawsuit Alleging It Misled Investors During Crisis

Reuters | Posted 03.13.2012 | Business

Read More: General Electric, Debt, Stock Price, Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Jeff Immelt, Berkshire Hathaway, Video, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Reuters, Loans, Financial Crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bank of America Corp, Deutsche Bank AG, Ge, Business News

(Adds details from lawsuit, background, bylines) * GE accused of overstating health during financial crisis * Judge allo...

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Just Label It! So We Know When It's GMO

Maria Rodale | Posted 03.10.2012 | Green

Read More: Maria Rodale, Gmo Food, Monsanto, Ge, GE Food, Right to Know, Syngenta, Organic Food, Maria's Farm Country Kitchen, Just Label It, Gmo, Green News

Manufacturers have decided that, if given the choice, we might not choose to buy GMO products. So, they've decided not to give us a choice, which doesn't seem very American.

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With Metlife Deal, GE Takes On $7.5 Billion In Consumer Banking Deposits

Posted 12.27.2011 | Business

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(BEN BERKOWITZ and TANYA AGRAWAL, Reuters) - General Electric Co jumped into the retail deposits business on Tuesday, buying the online bank fro...

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GE Admits Former Traders Rigged Bids, Agrees To Pay Millions To Stop Probes

Posted 12.23.2011 | Business

Read More: Business News, Ge Muni Bond Rigging, General Electric, Ge Bond Rigging, Municipal Bonds, Video, Municipal Debt, Ge, Business News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co acknowledged that three former traders at a finance unit engaged in bid-rigging of municipal bonds and...

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Put Shorts On The Board

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 01.21.2012 | Business

Read More: Procter and Gamble, Shareholders, Corporate Governance, Partnoy, Corporations, Board Members, Gm, Exxon, Corporate Boards, Business, Ge, Business News

Boards are biased, too like-minded, made up of friends who are typically cronies uncomfortable with conflict. Worse still, in most of our leading corporations today, the positions of Chairman and CEO are held by the same person.

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Wall Street Banks Sued For Massive Fraud In Subprime Deals

HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 11.02.2011 | Business

The federal government late Friday filed lawsuits against 17 financial institutions, including some of the nation’s largest banks, alleging a patter...

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Obama's Close Ties To CEOs Whose Firms Dodge Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 11.01.2011 | Politics

Read More: Boeing, Taxes, Verizon, Immelt, Motorola, David Cote, Economy, Jobs, Obama, Honeywell, Ford, Corporate Taxes, Deficit, Mullaly, Ceos, Dow Checmical, Slidepollajax, Ge, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As the nation struggles with a stagnant economy, President Barack Obama has preached overhauling the U.S. tax code to spur economic grow...

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America Is GE's Tax Haven

Reuters | David Cay Johnston | Posted 10.24.2011 | Business

Read More: Marginal Tax Rate, General Electric, GE Taxes, Tax Rate, US Corporate Taxes, Corporate Taxes, Ge, Business News

Washington politicians say high corporate tax rates are driving U.S. companies to invest offshore where tax rates are lower. But that is not General E...

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Drew Westen's Tension

Mike Bonifer | Posted 10.11.2011 | Media

Read More: Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Storytelling, Story, Mike Bonifer, Drew Westen, Stanley McChrystal, Narrative, New York Times, Timothy Geithner, Gamechangers, Barack Obama, Jeffrey Immelt, G.E., Improvistion, Media News

Drew Westen's leaving race out of his critique of how Barack Obama is playing the game is like leaving computers out of Bill Gates' story, or leaving love out of Paris.

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Augmented Reality: Three Applications That Change How We See Things

Bryce Maddock | Posted 10.05.2011 | Technology

Augmented reality. The term still sounds futuristic, but the applications, like Yelp's Monocle, are already sitting in our pockets. But there are three particular uses of augmented reality that struck me as more substance, and social change.

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