Shrinking demand and tough competition started a shakeout in the market in the early 1970s — RCA sold out to UNIVAC and GE also left ; in the 1980s Honeywell was bought out by Bull ; UNIVAC became a division of Sperry, which later merged with Burroughs to form Unisys Corporation in 1986.

GE sold its 50 % interest in then-RCA / Ariola International Records to its partner Bertelsmann and the company was renamed BMG Music, for Bertelsmann Music Group.

GE then sold the rights to make RCA-and GE-branded televisions and other consumer electronics products in 1988 to the French Thomson Consumer Electronics, in exchange for some of Thomson's medical businesses.

GE sold the NBC Radio Network to Westwood One and all of its radio stations to various owners.

In 1993, General Electric sold its aerospace division, including GE Armament Systems along with the design and production tooling for the M61 and GE's other rotary cannon, to Martin Marietta.

When GE left the mainframe business the line was sold to Honeywell, who built similar systems into the 1990s as the division moved to Groupe Bull and then NEC.

GE sold its computer division to Honeywell in 1970, who renamed the GE-600 series as the Honeywell 6000 series.

When the non-insurance operations of Transamerica were later sold to GE Capital, Aegon retained the building as an investment.

It had 11 I / O channel controllers, and GE sold a variety of add-ons including disks, printers and other devices.

In the 1970s, after GE sold its computer business to Honeywell and RCA sold its to Univac, the analogy to the seven dwarfs became less apt and the remaining small firms became known as the " BUNCH " ( Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell ).

* technology user agreements: a less publicly known factor, patented GE seed that is widely used for many crops, like cotton and soy, comes with restrictions on use, which can even include who the crop can be sold to.

BMG brought back the lightning bolt logo that was last used in 1968 to make clear that RCA Records was no longer co-owned with the other RCA entities which GE sold or closed.

This, and other GE Aerospace businesses, were sold to Martin Marietta in 1992.

Of the 112, 000 who left the payroll, 37, 000 were in businesses that GE sold, and 81, 000 were reduced in continuing businesses.

In August 2006 it was announced that after heavy losses Superbank would be shut down and have its portfolio sold to GE Money.

Many of these sources also claim that the patent rights for Morgan's designs were sold at about that time to General Electric ( GE ) for $ 40, 000.

It also manufactured lamps at factories in Leicester ( mostly auto and high and low pressure discharge ), Merthyr Tydfil ( incandescent ) and Enfield ( fluorescent ), which were sold to GE Lighting in the early 1990s.

Desmond sold London City Airport in October 2006 for a reported £ 750 million to a consortium consisting of insurer AIG, GE Capital and Credit Suisse.

This won SRI yet another contract, this time by GE to study the commercial computer market and suggest ways the ERM machines could be sold into other markets.

This was due, in part, to continuing reliance on GE's high quality electrical transmissions, sold to ALCO and MLW at a disadvantageous price by GE.

The dormant MLW plant was sold to General Electric in 1988 and ironically was used by GE during a late 1980s programme of rebuilding some of its earlier " Universal series " road switchers-the locomotives which had initially driven ALCO out of the locomotive business in the United States in 1969.

Myer originally had a store card managed by Australian Retail Financial Network ( ARFN ), sold in 1995 to GE Money.

SBC acquired a controlling interest in Frei, Treig & Cie. in 1968, Warag Bank in 1970 and Bank Prokredit in 1979 ( later sold to GE Capital in 1997 ).

In 2006 German property company Deka sold the Ark to Landid backed by GE Real Estate and O & H Properties, who saw the building required a radical refit to make the interior better suited for multiple tenants.

" By 1972 when GE and RCA were no longer in the mainframe business, the remaining five companies behind IBM became known as the BUNCH, an acronym based on their initials.

As a result, GE and Westinghouse gave up their ownership interests in RCA.

Honeywell expanded the use of the GCOS name to cover all its operating systems in the 1970s, though many of its computers had nothing in common with the earlier GE 600 series and their operating systems were not derived from the original GECOS.

GE saw this project as an opportunity to clearly separate themselves from other vendors by offering this advanced OS which would run best only on their machines.

However by the early 1960s GE was the largest user of IBM mainframes, and producing their own machines seemed like an excellent way to lower the costs of their computing department.

In some ways GE is the opposite of the " typical " 1960s conglomerate in that the company was not highly leveraged, and when interest rates went up they were able to turn this to their advantage, as it was often less expensive to lease from GE than buy new equipment using loans.

GE hired scientists and let them do pure research, and his job was to interview these scientists and find good stories about their research.

Companies that are well known for their succession planning and executive talent development practices include: GE, Honeywell, IBM, Marriott, Microsoft, Pepsi and Procter & Gamble.

At least two other brands of toasters had been introduced commercially around the time General Electric submitted their first patent application in 1909 for one, the GE model D-12, designed by technician Frank Shailor, " the first commercially successful electric toaster ".

GEIS served a diverse set of large-scale, international, commercial network-based custom application needs, including banking, Electronic Data Interchange and e-mail services to companies worldwide, but was able to run GEnie on their many GE Mark III time-sharing mainframe computers that otherwise would have been underutilized after normal U. S. business hours.

For patients who have HER2 overexpressing metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal ( GE ) junction adenocarcinoma, who have not received prior treatment for their metastatic disease, the US Food and Drug Administration granted approval ( 2010 October ) for trastuzumab ( Herceptin, Genentech, Inc .) in combination with cisplatin and a fluoropyrimidine ( capecitabine or 5-fluorouracil ).

On July 25, 2006, GE Consumer Finance released a Char Custom credit card, which receives three times as many bonus points per 1000 yen spent compared to their other Gundam-related credit cards.

By the end of 1926, GE had begun experimenting with traffic-controlled systems ( as opposed to timer-controlled devices ); it is highly implausible that GE would consider investing $ 40, 000 ( over $ 500, 000 USD inflation-adjusted to 2011 ) in a manual, crank-driven signaling device during an era when the company was researching, developing and producing solid-state analog circuitry and actively implementing these technologies into their signals.

The governments of Greece, Austria, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary and France have all publicly announced that they will not allow the GE potato to be grown in their countries.

Although the GE stones and natural diamonds were chemically identical, their physical properties were not the same.

Apple wanted out of their contract with GE, which was costing them far more money than it was saving, and wanted to provide their own Mac-only competition to AOL's service.

They canceled their GE contract and formed an Online Services Group.

After their refurbishment, R32 and R32A cars were renamed R32 Phase I, R32 Phase II and R32 GE.

GE also continued development of their own lines, introducing new civilian models like the GE90, and military designs like the General Electric F110.

Meanwhile, Patrick Hanratty was making similar developments at GE as part of their partnership with G & L on the Numericord.

Michael Reagan said that Robert Kennedy told GE officials that the company would receive no federal contracts so long as Reagan was host of their showcase television series.