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GE launches remote control products to keep its consumer foothold

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Published Wed, Nov 12, 2014 · 09:50 PM

    New York

    DESPITE General Electric Co's (GE) impending sale of its appliances business, the company is not abandoning the consumer.

    The US conglomerate, along with startup invention company Quirky, on Tuesday revealed seven "connected home" retail products that allow people to remotely control and monitor things such as temperature, doors and windows, water leakage and energy usage.

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