The bad news for NBC Universal: The TV & movie powerhouse saw earnings drop 45 percent in the last quarter. The good news: The GE unit says that if yo...
AP | MARCY GORDON and DANIEL WAGNER | Posted 05.18.2009 | Business
Companies are turning in surprisingly good quarterly earnings _ including better-than-expected news Friday from two relative weaklings in the banking ...
Dr. Susan M. Guthrie | Posted 05.08.2009 | Living
General Electric, Burger King, Microsoft and Hewlett Packard were all founded during severe recessions. Economic pressure forces business to look for ways to operate smarter and leaner.
Marc Gunther | Posted 04.26.2009 | Business
Here's one answer: Instead of motivating people or trying to coerce them, companies can inspire them.
Julian E. Zelizer | Posted 04.16.2009 | Business
This book traces a network of wealthy business leaders who, starting in the 40s and on through the 80s, poured their funds and energy into making conservatism a viable and powerful political force.
AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — General Electric Co. lost its top credit rating from Standard & Poor's on Thursday over concerns of rising loan losses and lower ea...
Hollywood Reporter | Paul Bond | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media
Stock in General Electric, once one of the world's most respected companies, has suffered a historic 69% nose dive in the past six months that no one ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics
With General Electric's stock price hovering somewhere in the vicinity of seven and a half dollars, the possibility of the company becoming a fully-ow...
Jay Marose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media
For PR people, media conglomeration has only made the ability to garner press coverage of your product, be it a entertainment, consumer items or causes, based on its own merits more difficult.
AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — For the first time since the Great Depression, General Electric Co. is cutting its quarterly dividend, a move that allows the strug...
Dan Dorfman | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
Europe, Japan and the United States are all in the midst of a recession and the world's fastest growing emerging markets, among them China and India, are slowing markedly.
AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — In a discouraging report for the American economy, General Electric Co. posted a 46 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings on Frid...
247wallst.com | Posted 02.02.2009 | Business
At the top of the list is Apple (AAPL) which deserves some recognition for rebuilding itself with what many people believe is the best line of persona...
AP | ERNEST SCHEYDER | Posted 01.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — General Electric Co. said Tuesday it will sell power-generation equipment to Iraq in a nearly $3 billion deal designed to support the...
Jack Myers | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business
Marketers, agencies and media companies are struggling to come to grips with the economic downturn, but the economy is camouflaging their most compell...
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 11.30.2008 | Green
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....
AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 11.10.2008 | Business
HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. spared investors any nasty surprises as it reported a 22 percent drop in third-quarter earnings on Friday...
MarketWatch | Posted 11.01.2008 | Business
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...
AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business
NEW YORK — Financial markets grew more upbeat Thursday as political leaders said they struck an agreement in principle on a massive spending pla...
AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 10.26.2008 | Business
HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co., the industrial powerhouse that makes everything from jet engines to light bulbs, cut its earnings foreca...
Steven Crandell | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green
The nuclear status quo is dangerous. If we do nothing, the chance of a nuclear weapon being detonated only grows higher.
Steve Parker | Posted 10.18.2008 | Green
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...
Zachary Karabell | Posted 07.30.2008 | Green
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.
AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 07.19.2008 | Media
SUN VALLEY, Idaho — General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off ...
AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business
HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. reverted to form with no big surprises in its latest earnings report, and investors shocked by an unexpec...
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 05.18.2009 | Media