GE Appliances, once a unit of General Electric before it was sold to Haier in January, has a 35,000-sq.-ft. microfactory called FirstBuild that serves as a public space where product ideas are ...

This story appears in the July 20, 2015 issue of Forbes magazine. If you've got a hankering for nugget ice--you know, the tiny, chewable frozen pellets that restaurant chains like Sonic use to ...

To squeeze more value out of its many patents, General Electric recently began sharing hundreds of them with Quirky, a New York City-based crowdsourcing site that has raised more than $90 million ...