GE Reports

Where Jules Verne Meets Star Wars: GE’s Walking Truck of the 1960s

This July, millions of Americans will head to the air-conditioned confines of their local multiplex to take in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, Captain America: The First Avenger and other summer blockbusters. A military relic that foreshadowed a sci-fi vehicle featured in perhaps the most popular summer [...]

“Ask Anything” Panelists Agree: The Future Will be Built from the Bottom Up

Usually, after the honors are bestowed at an awards ceremony, everybody goes home, or straight to the after-party. But yesterday morning’s announcement of the the winners of the latest round of GE’s Ecomagination Challenge — a global innovation experiment to find the best ideas for improving our energy future — [...]

Ecomagination Challenge Announces New Winners, $63M Round of Investments in Clean Tech

The winners of the latest round of the ecomagination Challenge were announced on Thursday as GE celebrated the first year of the initiative with 10 more investments in clean technology.
The theme was “powering your home,” and five companies—selected by an independent panel of judges, including Wired magazine editor Chris Anderson—were [...]

LEAPing the Competition at Paris Air Show: $27 Billion in Engine and Service Deals

CFM International, the joint venture between GE Aviation and French engine manufacturer Snecma, capped off an already record week at the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget with a doozy of an announcement this morning: carrier Air Asia will purchase 400 of CFM’s more energy-efficient LEAP engines for 200 of [...]

Better Healthcare: GE Foundation Gives $1.25 M to Chicago Health Centers

The healthcare debate has died down a bit in Washington (for the moment, anyway), but the realities of U.S. healthcare are still stark: the number of uninsured Americans remains at an all-time high, and over 50 million people nationwide lack access to medical care.
A crucial resource for uninsured and underserved [...]

Hooah for Hybrids: 9 Ways the Military is Curbing Energy Use

This week’s Txchnologist, a weekly magazine sponsored by GE, takes a look at how the military is going green, after the Department of Defense last week rolled out its plan to consume less, and find new ways to source, energy.

Carriers LEAP on the Bandwagon at Paris Air Show

When the earliest flight enthusiasts gathered at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1909 for an exhibition on “Aerial Locomotion,” they ooohed and aaahed at the latest technology on display – mostly hot air balloons. At the 2011 edition, the 49th International Paris Air Show, which opened today, show-goers will [...]