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Steve Capus, President of NBC News, continues to tolerate MSNBC's unprofessional, insensitive , and now unpatriotic ways.

After 5 months of trading in 2012, General Electric Co.'s shares are up 7.93 percent.

A few days ago Jeff Immelt sent out a message to all 300,000 General Electric employees offering some tips for their summer reading.

A two-year-old gas oven sits, like new, in the kitchen of a residence retired pediatrician and neonatologist Robert Harris of West Hartford uses only on Friday nights and Saturdays for the Jewish Sabbath.

James Moore investigates the government adviser who thinks companies should be able to fire at will - and discovers how he made a personal fortune at the expense of the people he employed Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

A couple of weeks ago Forbes had given Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer the title as the worst CEO of a large publicly traded American company today.

Brazilian mogul Eike Batista's Grupo EBX has announced a "strategic accord" with General Electric Co.

Bank of America Corporation will repurchase $330 million worth of home loans from Freddie Mac , following the discovery of flaws in their creation process, says a Bloomberg report.

A number of other firms have also recently commented on GE. Analysts at Morgan Stanley raised their EPS on shares of General Electric in a research note to investors on Friday, May 18th.

Second from right , M Ghaziul Haque, chairman of Eastern Bank, presents a bouquet at a reception organised by the bank to honour Latifur Rahman, second from left, chairman of Transcom Group, for winning the Oslo Business for Peace Award, at the Westin hotel in Dhaka on Wednesday.

's $4.5 billion "special dividend"--to be paid from GE Capital to the parent company--will be used entirely for buybacks, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told investors at an industry conference Wednesday.

General Electric Co will invest $300 million for an equity stake in a fund run by Brazilian industrial group EBX Group that invests in Brazil infrastructure projects, EBX and the largest U.S. conglomerate said on Thursday.

Burma's state-run television announced on Wednesday that the government will boost electricity supplies in the country in the wake of protests over power cuts.

General Electric Co. may not be able to improve the profit margin for its industrial businesses as much as forecast this year, Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said, backing away from a key projection the company had reaffirmed just four weeks ago.

H&R Block Inc. has chosen a former executive in General Electric’s subprime mortgage operation to be the tax preparer’s chief financial officer.Gregory J. Macfarlane had most recently had been the chief financial officer of Ceridian Corp., a human resources firm, where he worked from 2007 to 2011.

General Electric Co plans to continue to shrink its finance arm, pulling back from consumer finance and reducing its real estate holdings, but Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt said on Wednesday he did not know how long the change would take.

MetLife Inc is still waiting on a number of regulatory approvals to sell its banking operations to General Electric Co and has no more information on timing than it did a month ago, Chief Executive Steve Kandarian said on Wednesday.

General Electric Company A : According to a report released Friday, Morgan Stanley's A research analysts raised their EPS estimates on General Electric's shares.

Burned by the memory of deals gone bad, top U.S. conglomerates including General Electric Co and Honeywell International Inc have backed away from big acquisitions, saying the risks of $10 billion takeovers aren't worth it.