More than a century after Edison moved his Edison Machine Works here, laying the groundwork for what would become the General Electric Company, Mr. Anderson is deploying myriad sensors to collect information about what happens inside a massive ...

Fifty years ago, after dabbling in computing at the birth of the mainframe industry, General Electric missed the chance to add leadership in information technology to its industrial heritage.

Peter DaSilva for The New York Times William Ruh, left, the head of global software at General Electric. Mr. Ruh said the use of sensors, networking technology and data analysis to better understand and use large industrial processes was �one of G.E.'s ...

Today's technology is simply amazing. You can adjust the temperature of your home with your phone, and the thermostat will even send reports of how much energy you've used and when you turned the heat on.

Driven by robust data from the housing market and anticipation of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's comments tomorrow, markets surged for a second straight day on Tuesday.

Unlike many other big-data solutions, GE's new Hadoop-based software is targeted at the �industrial Internet.� Companies in industries like aviation, health care, energy, transportation, and manufacturing all can benefit from real-time insight and ...

Comstock said GE is developing an �industrial Internet,� building networks that harvest data from commercial machines and offering services to help customers analyze the resulting reams of information.

Engine makers General Electric (GE) and United Technologies (UTX) are also in a heated fight to win orders and secure dominance in the engine market.

Jet-engine maker CFM International Inc., a joint venture of GE Aviation and Snecma, had quite a day during the third day of the 50th international Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, France, announcing more than $14 billion in sales on Wednesday.

General Electric Company ( GE ) will begin trading ex-dividend on June 20, 2013. A cash dividend payment of $0.19 per share is scheduled to be paid on July 25, 2013.