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We’ve been so busy telling you stories about GE that we almost forgot to celebrate GE Reports’ one-year anniversary. And what better day to do that, than today – the 40th birthday of the Internet!

GE Reports officially turned 1 last week, Thursday, October 22nd to be exact. [...]

Today, GE reported third quarter 2009 earnings from continuing operations (attributable to GE) of $2.5 billion, or $0.22 per share, including the effect of $0.05 in restructuring and other charges, down 51% from the third quarter of 2008. Industrial segment profit grew 4% in the quarter [...]

Fox News’s The O’Reilly Factor on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, accused GE of being under suspicion for providing materials that are used by terrorists to build roadside bombs to attack U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is no truth to this irresponsible and maliciously false report. O’Reilly and Fox [...]

Today, GE reported second quarter 2009 earnings from continuing operations of $2.9 billion, or $0.26 per share. Our revenues from continuing operations were $39.1 billion, down 17% when compared to the same quarter last year, but in line with our expectations. However, cash generated from operating activities was ahead of [...]

A Wall Street Journal story today provides a misleading account of GE’s relationship with a supplier to our Energy business. The report is based on second-hand and inaccurate claims made by a union leader in a letter to GE.

It’s been a week in which the fundamental importance of manufacturing and R&D has been on the front burner at GE. The company just announced that it’s opening an Advanced Manufacturing and Software Technology Center outside of Detroit that will bring 1,100 jobs to Michigan. And GE’s Chairman and CEO [...]

Joined by New York Governor David Paterson, GE’s chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt is announcing a major economic development project this morning for upstate New York that will bring green jobs to the capital area. His remarks and the press conference that follows are available here on GE Reports via [...]