General Electric

The General Electric Company, or GE, {{nyse|GE}} is a multinational technology and services company. Going into 2005, it was the world's largest corporation in terms of market cap (http://screen.yahoo.com/b?mc=100000000/&b=1&z=mc&db=stocks&vw=1). However, on the back of high oil prices, ExxonMobil has outranked GE for most of 2005. It should not be confused with The General Electric Company plc, which was renamed Marconi plc in 1999.

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• The company's market capitalization (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=GE) is almost $100 billion higher than that of Microsoft (http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=msft).
• In 2004 GE was named number one company for employers and employees on the Forbes 500 Global Player list.