Global Research and the Technical University of Munich Agree to Multi-Year, 5 Million Euro Investment That Will Make Possible New Carbon Composite Applications in Wind Power, Aviation and Oil & Gas
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), today signed a [...]

GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that it has been awarded UIC certificates E-001/2009-02 for its Evolution® V12 diesel locomotive engines that power its Evolution Series locomotives. The Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer (UIC – International Union of Railways) inspection procedure, which includes an endurance run as [...]

GE Transportation, a unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today that its customer Kazakhstan Temir Zholy (KTZ) has taken delivery of the 3,000th Evolution Series® locomotive produced at GE Transportation’s Erie, Pennsylvania manufacturing site. The Evolution is the most technologically advanced diesel electric, heavy-haul locomotive to-date. One Evolution Series locomotive can pull [...]

Proposed ventures to focus on healthcare IT in Middle East and Africa and imaging-related R&D projects
General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), and Qatar Foundation today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to create a partnership covering a range of healthcare business and research initiatives. Building on GE’s strong existing partnership with Qatar Science & Technology Park [...]

Home food and beverage safety monitoring, remote water purity testing, more effective chemical and biological sensors all potential applications
GE Global Research, the technology development arm of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), today announced a battery-free, multi-detection radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensing platform that could enable a wide range of low cost wireless sensing products [...]

Card Will Offer U.S. Customers Fuel Credit Rewards and Other Benefits
GE Money today announced the Chevron and Texaco Visa credit card, offering U.S. customers a compelling rewards structure, including:
10 cents per gallon in fuel credits when the card is used for fuel purchases at Chevron and Texaco stations.
3% in fuel credits when the card [...]

Proposed transaction is in line with objective to redeploy capital for higher returns
GE Money, the consumer financial services unit of the General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), announced today it has signed an agreement to sell its Japanese consumer finance business, which includes the Lake personal loan business, wholly owned credit cards and mortgages under [...]

Texas-based United Supermarkets, LLC, has retrofitted low- and medium-temperature refrigerated display cases in all of its 47 stores with a GE ecomagination product—a light-emitting diode (LED) solution from Lumination, a GE Consumer & Industrial business.
The Lumination LED Refrigerated Display Lighting solution replaces United Supermarket’s traditional fluorescent lamps. In all, United retrofitted more than 3,600 [...]

Pre-Configured Solutions Expedite Customer Deployment; HP Now a Member in Leading Certified Partner Network for Centricity Enterprise solutions
GE Healthcare IT, a division of General Electric Company (NYSE:GE), today announced an extended collaboration with HP to offer pre-configured, pre-installed GE Centricity® Enterprise software on HP Integrity NonStop servers. The collaboration will target midsize hospitals and [...]

The Nestlé Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland and GE Global Research, the General Electric Company’s (NYSE: GE) centralized research and development organization, announce an innovative collaboration to scientifically assess associations between body composition, metabolic status, diet and lifestyle habits.
This unique relationship brings together the dynamic competencies of the Nestlé Research Center, experts in metabolism, nutrition [...]