General Electric Co. has reached an agreement to buy the 20 percent stake in NBC Universal held by French media conglomerate Vivendi SA, The Associated Press has learned.
GE has agreed to pay Vivendi $5.8bn for the French group's 20 per cent stake in NBC Universal, according to a person familiar with the negotiations, paving the way for the conglomerate's planned $30bn sale of a majority stake in the US media group to Comcast .
Nuclear and electric power company Areva SA said Monday that it will enter exclusive negotiations with fellow French companies Alstom SA and Schneider Electric SA for the sale of its power transmission and distribution business, rejecting separate bids from General Electric Co. and Japan's Toshiba Corp.
Alstom and Schneider Electric of France on Monday night trumped foreign rivals GE of the US and Toshiba of Japan with a EU4.1bn bid for the transmission and distribution arm of state-owned nuclear group, Areva.
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MADRID----Metro de Madrid, the third largest metro system in the world, with the help of Accenture together with GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, a unit of GE Enterprise Solutions, has successfully introduced a program to transform its maintenance operations and provide higher standards of transportation services.
Grinchmas" time is coming to Universal Studios Hollywood as "The Entertainment Capital of L.A." prepares to ring in the festive season with a traditional white Christmas and a not-so-traditional green Grinch, tons of fresh snow, encounters with Cindy-Lou Who and Max the Dog and a "Whoville Whobilation" at the original movie sets where the classic "Dr Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas" was filmed.
CHICAGO----GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company , announced today a multi-center study to investigate the performance of Model Based Iterative Reconstruction as a method to maintain or improve diagnostic information available to clinicians while dramatically lowering radiation dose in routine CT imaging.
CHICAGO----At this year’s Radiology Society of America annual meeting, GE Healthcare, a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company presented the new Innova® dose-efficient X-ray technology powered by the innovative GE AutoEx control system, which automatically and continuously adapts to help keep image quality and patient dose at optimum levels.
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