About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: GIS companies, General Electric, List of cartographers, Esri, Autodesk, Quantapoint, Intergraph, MapInfo, Navteq, Tele Atlas, GeoEye, Collins Bartholomew, Ausway, RapidEye, DigitalGlobe, BroadMap, Manifold System, Spot Image, Leica Geosystems, GeoEye-1, Red Hen Systems, Cadcorp, WeoGeo, DeLorme, Hart InterCivic, Space Imaging Middle East, Fugro NPA, GeoSmart, Automotive Navigation Data, Magnasoft Consulting India Private Limited, Academa, Caliper Corporation, GfK GeoMarketing, CloudMade, Geographer's A-Z Street Atlas, GlobeXplorer, NearMap, Langenscheidt, Global Mapper, MapBlast, Blue Marble Geographics, Zenrin, The XYZ Digital Map Company, Safe Software, Smallworld, IDV Solutions, Mapscape BV, GNAV, Electronic Chart Centre, AtlasCT, Endoxon, Guia Roji, MicroImages, Inc., Route 66, SIA Ltd. Excerpt: General Electric Company (NYSE: GE), or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States. The company operates through five segments: Energy, Technology Infrastructure, NBC Universal, Capital Finance and Consumer & Industrial. In 2011, Forbes ranked General Electric third largest after JPMorgan Chase and HSBC, based on a formula that compared the total sales, profits, assets and market value of several multinational companies. The company has 287,000 employees around the world. By 1890, Thomas Edison had brought together several of his business interests under one corporation to form Edison General Electric. At about the same time, Thomson-Houston Electric Company, under the leadership of Charles Coffin, gained access to a number of key patents through the acquisition of a number of competitors. Subsequently, General Electric was formed by the 1892 merger of Edison General Electric of Schenectady, New York and Thomso...
