Science in Action: New Breakthrough TV Series from NatGeo and GE Zooms In on...
Hollywood producer Brian Grazer says that a curious mind is the secret to a bigger life. It’s also the secret to a thriving business.Grazer and Oscar-winning director Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind) have...
View ArticleSaudi Innovation Center Joins GE’s Global Push Into Software and Advanced...
GE’s innovation center in Saudi Arabia will join the company’s family of global research hubs stretching from the US, to Europe, Brazil, China and India. The move highlights GE’s growing emphasis on...
View ArticlePower in Numbers: Industrial Internet Software is Helping Solve Pakistan’s...
Shahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000 employees, $800...
View ArticleA Shared Vision: GE and Alstom Continue Their Common History With Latest...
GE acquired the power and grid business of the engineering company Alstom on Monday, creating a new global industrial powerhouse. The ink on the deal is still fresh, but it isn’t the first time the two...
View ArticleNew Power Generation: GE-Alstom Energy Deal Redefines Power Industry in...
GE completed its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business today. The transaction, GE’s largest industrial deal ever, unites two storied businesses with roots stretching to the very dawn of the...
View ArticleAlberto Matucci: Adopting a Big Data Mindset for the Oil & Gas Sector
In the era of Big Data, project managers need a new skillset and mindset. Before 1998, the word terabyte didn’t exist. In 2007, the first 1 terabyte hard drive was brought to market. By 2020, we expect...
View ArticleData Lights the Way: Qatar’s RasGas Will Use the Industrial Internet to Make...
Qatar-based RasGas Company Limited isn’t your typical energy business. In just two decades, it has grown into a leading global supplier of liquefied natural gas (LNG). The company employs more than...
View ArticleThe French Connection: Why GE and EDF Click
French energy giant EDF is a well-known nuclear-power-generation company, but now it wants to diversify its energy mix by expanding into renewable energy. Antoine Cahuzac, the CEO of EDF Énergies...
View ArticleWhat America’s First Offshore Wind Farm Reveals About GE’s Alstom Deal
Block Island is a teardrop-shaped piece of land some 13 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, U.S. It’s best known for its beaches, wind-swept bluffs and summer vacation homes. But a new attraction is...
View ArticleGive and Take: How GE Aviation is Profiting from the GE Store
GE Aviation, one of GE’s largest and most profitable units, generated $24 billion in revenues in 2014. Talking to investors this week just before the Dubai Air Show, David Joyce, its chief executive,...
View ArticleAmb. Michael Froman: If We Don’t Write the Rules of the Global Economy,...
America is at a crossroads in the world economy. If we don’t take the lead in writing the economic rules of the road through trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), other countries...
View ArticlePower Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of...
View ArticleEngines of Inference: Peter Tu’s Tech Uses Computer Vision to Understand...
If Peter Tu’s technology takes off, an airplane could know when pilots get distracted in the cockpit and offer suggestions to help them make better decisions. Similarly, doctors could receive important...
View ArticleThe World’s Largest Passenger Plane and Other Highlights from Day One at...
The 2015 Dubai Air Show opened for business on Sunday. Cities in the United Arab Emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become major aviation hubs over the last two decades and carriers based in the...
View ArticleWill Artificial Intelligence Do Great Harm or Great Good? — Interview with...
We must consider the key moral and policy questions around artificial intelligence and cyborg technologies to ensure our innovations don’t destroy us. How much do we really know about the impact of...
View ArticleGE Signs $2.6 Billion Deal to Supply 1,000 Locomotives to India’s Vast...
A recent five-year transportation study found that more than half of the trains running on India’s vast rail network didn’t leave on time. What’s holding them back? A lack of locomotives.Not...
View ArticleThe Art of Engineering: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Shows Off Composite...
Nick Kray is no Picasso, yet his work is on display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. A decade ago, MoMA’s design collection picked up a composite fan blade from the GE90 jet engine that Kray helped...
View ArticleUnder the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in...
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known...
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