Jeffrey Immelt, GE CEO: Era Of Meanness, Greed Drawing to End
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt has come clean about the financial crisis. In prepared remarks during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy in West...
General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt has come clean about the financial crisis. In prepared remarks during a speech at the U.S. Military Academy in West...
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — General Electric Co. has promised to buy at least $345 million in advertising from NBC Universal over five years after selling a ...
AP | DEBORAH YAO and RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. is buying control of NBC Universal from GE largely because Comcast wants to own more movies and TV shows. The point...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
WASHINGTON — Comcast Corp. will likely have to accept substantial conditions if the cable TV provider wants to win regulatory approval for contr...
AP | DEBORAH YAO and STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 12.03.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — Comcast Corp. is expected to pay $13.75 billion in cash and assets to gain control of NBC Universal from General Electric Co., Th...
BusinessWeek / ProPublica | Jeff Gerth | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is weighing further regulation of three drugs used to create high-contrast images on MRI scans, based on a new a...
Posted 12.01.2009 | Business
The deal between General Electric and Comcast over a majority stake in NBC Universal is complete, and there is nothing left to do but process paper, a...
Josh Silver | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
Obama has promised to finally begin enforcing antitrust laws to prevent unreasonable consolidation of market power. If ever a media deal posed such a threat, this is it.
AP | DEBORAH YAO | Posted 12.01.2009 | Media
PHILADELPHIA — General Electric Co. has reached an agreement to buy the 20 percent stake in NBC Universal held by French media conglomerate Vive...
New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and TIM ARANGO | Posted 11.23.2009 | Media
Talks between General Electric and Vivendi over the future of NBC Universal have stalled, according to people involved in the discussions who spoke on...
Jenny Darroch | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business
While strong brands need to stay relevant, strong brands do not constantly change what they stand for.
Reuters | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric Co. and Comcast Corp have agreed on a valuation of around $30 billion for a joint venture between NBC Universal ...
The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Fred Schulte | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
Editor's note: This story is published in conjunction with American University's Investigative Reporting Workshop. The government's $45 billion pl...
New York Times | MICHAEL J. De La MERCED | Posted 11.02.2009 | Media
General Electric and the cable giant Comcast have moved closer to a deal giving control of NBC Universal to Comcast, and a formal announcement could b...
Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.21.2009 | Business
Today, President Barack Obama held a press conference in Landover, MD to announce the administration's plans for a, "New Small Business Lending Initia...
BusinessWeek | Jeff Gerth | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business
Many MRI patients are injected with a GE dye to enhance images. If they have weak kidneys, they might develop a rare and sometimes fatal disease. n...
BusinessWeek | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media
Would General Electric CEO (GE) Jeff Immelt like to see NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker stick around, even if GE sells off majority control of its broad...
Josh Nelson | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green
Companies should only be members of the Chamber of Commerce if they support hyper-conservative anti-regulatory policies across the board, and aren't afraid to show it.
The Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
Mainstreet | Seth Fiegerman | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business
More than half of the companies on this year's Fortune 500 list were founded during a recession or bear market. The next breakthrough business could b...
Sydney Finkelstein, Ph.D. | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business
GE Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, a 1978 Dartmouth graduate, says that to consider "change" and "social change" separately is a "losing proposition."
Reuters | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media
NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker could be about to get a new boss -- and asked to explain a three-year run when his company expanded its cable business a...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media
Update 2:30 PM ET: CNBC's David Faber reports that GE and Comcast are in talks "about a deal in which GE would spin off its NBC Universal unit into a ...
nytimes.com | GRAHAM BOWLEY | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business
When so many others were running scared last autumn, Mr. Buffett invested billions in Goldman Sachs, and got a far better deal than Washington. He the...
Chris Gunn | Posted 10.18.2009 | Business
We project that by counting big businesses in the United States and Europe as small businesses the Obama Administration may be shortchanging middle class firms out of as much as $100 billion a year in contracts.
Posted 12.10.2009 | Business