​A Boston-centric view of what to look for when GE reports earnings on Friday

The state’s biggest company in pretty much every respect is General Electric Co. With $124 billion in revenues last year, a market capitalization of $267 billion and 295,000 employees, the company dwarfs pretty much every other Massachusetts-based firm, public or private.And while the GE (NYSE: GE) that Boston sees is vastly different from the one shown to the worldwide investor community, when it announces first quarter financial results Friday morning, along with any corporate updates, i