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General Electric Co. is restructuring its Indian healthcare business in an effort to boost revenues and develop more products domestically, for both Indian and global markets, GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt said Friday.

GE Healthcare will consolidate all its India business within Wipro GE Healthcare, a joint venture between Indian technology giant Wipro Ltd. and GE Healthcare set up in 1990, the companies said. The joint venture currently distributes about… Continue reading

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A new portable electrocardiogram machine, the MAC 400, can take 100 EKGs on a single battery charge and weighs less than three pounds. This is appropriate for rural areas in emerging markets where electricity is not always readily available and where patients cannot easily travel to urban diagnostic centers. The product’s roots are as remarkable as its capabilities: The MAC 400 was designed at General Electric’s John F. Welch Technology… Continue reading

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Franchiseek Interntaional is now selling Guerrilla Marketing Strategies training materials for franchisees and other small business owners. FranchiSeek.com is currently selling Guerrilla Marketing for Franchisees books, Audio CD’s and workbooks on their web portals in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emerites and the United Kingdom. The companies are… Continue reading

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President-elect Obama’s commitment to maintain America’s technology leadership in the world, through an increase in public funding of basic research, has coincided with the publication of a new book on innovation, The Venturesome Economy, which questions the value of such an approach while in Ireland, billions of euros continue to be spent on university research in pursuit of the goal to become a “world

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Population growth and construction have driven Arizona’s prosperity during the past decade. As a result, the rapid emergence of a Phoenix-Tucson megaregion has the potential to seed a dynamic zone of innovation that will benefit all Arizonans.

To quote Yogi Berra: “The future ain’t what it used to be!”

And yet, for all our growth, we cannot compete only by dint of size. The addition of 2.5 billion citizens in China and… Continue reading

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SINGAPORE: The urgency of creative global leadership to address today’s borderless problems and the parallel importance of consensus-based politics in India were emphasised at a future-gazing professional conference here on Saturday.

The daylong conference was organised by the Singapore-based Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Alumni Association. Leadership issues were discussed under the association’s overall signature theme of ‘IIT Everywhere – Asia 2020.’ Setting the tone for discussions, Singapore Minister for Community… Continue reading

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People tend to think of lower-cost IT services — and not “innovation” — when Indian outsourcer Wipro Technologies’ name is mentioned. So, it may come as a surprise that $1 billion, or about a quarter of Wipro’s revenue last year, was generated through R&D services — including designing semiconductors, automobile parts, and a variety of electronic devices. Looking ahead, Wipro says those R&D services will become an even bigger chunk… Continue reading

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