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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by tootie on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:00PM (#12373160)
Or finance? They just finished unwinding GE Capital after failing at it for 15 years.
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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by snowwrestler on Saturday August 27, 2016 @09:00PM (#12374836)
GE Capital was quite successful. GE powered it down because it put them above the threshold for Fed regulation under Dodd-Frank, and they did not want to deal with that.
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Re:G.E., the 124-Year-Old Software Start-Up by xapata on Saturday August 27, 2016 @01:21PM (#12373234)
Some years (pre-crash) GE Capital made more than the rest of the company combined. Not sure that's failing.
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