Automated Intelligence Gets a General Electric Boost

General Electric has played the part of industrial monolith for so many of its 126 years that its Intelligent Platforms division is enough to make at least one corner of the company feel like an honest startup, especially in regard to its efforts in automated intelligence. The division has acquired more than a dozen smaller companies during recent years, an "inorganic acquisition spree," to use the words of chief of strategy Rich Carpenter. read more