The FINANCIAL -- Participants in the music instrument industry are optimistic about growing sales in 2012 even as they acknowledge that consumer demand has been muted in recent years, according to survey results released today by GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance.

The FINANCIAL 00 Surface mine operators are finding it harder to deliver the same amount of minerals in the same time with existing technologies.According to General Electric Company, the ore being uncovered has lower concentrations of minerals as existing sites become more mature.

The FINANCIAL -- GE announced the availability of its new GE TS1000 coalescer, a gas turbine filtration product that delivers improved plant performance and lower maintenance costs to customers operating power generation facilities in harsh conditions near coastal environments.

the FINANCIAL -- Nokia announced that the Nokia Lumia 800 will be available in white, beginning later this month.

The FINANCIAL -- Microsoft ’s Xbox 360 has been dominating its home turf for the past couple of years, sitting atop the monthly sales charts for the U.S. video-game console market, but the Redmond company has just taken the title of top-selling home console worldwide, as well.