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J.C. Penney: $1.75B Loan Taken From Goldman Sachs

J.C. Penney: $1.75B Loan Taken From Goldman Sachs

By Sean Patterson April 29, 2013 | 4 Comments

In early April, J.C. Penny CEO Ron Johnson stepped down following over one year of dismal financial results at the company. Johnson had attempted to turn the department store business on its head, eschewing sales and coupons in favor of …

Greg Smith Leaves Goldman Sachs With Dignity Greg Smith Leaves Goldman Sachs With Dignity
By · March 14, 2012 · 1 Comment

Greg Smith, executive director and head of Goldman Sachs’ United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa has announced his resignation today. He has published his reasons for leaving the firm in a controversial article in …

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Despite Complaints, Amazon May Sell 6 Million Kindle Fires in 2011 Despite Complaints, Amazon May Sell 6 Million Kindle Fires in 2011
By · December 13, 2011 · 1 Comment

Despite a strong start, you may have heard that the Kindle Fire, Amazon’s latest entry into the tablet market, isn’t all that great after all. People weren’t that impressed with several aspects of the Kindle Fire and didn’t take kindly …

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Private Facebook Offering Closed To Americans
By · January 17, 2011

Often enough, products, services, and contests that originate in the U.S. are just available and/or open to American citizens.  Now, in an unusual reversal of that custom, Goldman Sachs has announced that only clients who aren’t based in the U.S. will be allowed to buy shares of Facebook’s private stock through the firm.

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Facebook Raises $500 Million At $50 Billion Valuation
By · January 3, 2011 · 1 Comment

It’s a happy new year indeed for Mark Zuckerberg and everyone with financial ties to Facebook.  Goldman Sachs and Digital Sky Technologies have invested $500 million in the company, according to a new report, and in doing so, valued it at $50 billion.

A couple points of reference: it was only 38 months ago that Microsoft drew laughter by paying $240 million for a 1.2 percent stake in Facebook, valuing it at $15 billion.  And Yahoo and eBay just have market caps of about $21.7 billion and $36.3 billion, respectively.

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Goldman Sachs Takes Google Off “Conviction Buy” List
By · April 27, 2010 · 2 Comments

Sorry, Google fans, but from a financial perspective, the search giant seems to have lost some of its luster.  Goldman Sachs hasn’t come close to suggesting that anyone sell their stock – and is in fact still recommending that people buy more – but at the same time, the firm has removed Google from its "Conviction Buy" list.

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Goldman Sachs Slashes Nexus One Sales Forecasts
By · March 9, 2010 · 3 Comments

Investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs is more or less giving up on Google’s Nexus One.  A note Goldman Sachs published this week indicates that it’s cut its 2010 sales forecast by a whopping 71.4 percent.

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Noteworthy Videos
Getty Images Falls Victim to the Changes of the Internet
By · January 21, 2008

It seems like every week there’s another example of how the Internet has toppled business models that have been in place longer than the Internet itself.

Control is not really possible when there are so many ways to pirate or undercut sales. The newspaper, music, movie, and now images market are changing drastically (and I love to read Seth Godin’s take on the changes).

Business
Getty Images For Sale
By · January 21, 2008 · 2 Comments

Getty Images, the world’s largest supplier of pictures and video to the media is for sale.

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In The Newsletter
iCrossing Receives $62 Million In Funding
By · July 27, 2007 · 1

Companies routinely receive three, five, or even ten million dollars in various funding rounds; reporting on it kind of dulls you to those huge amounts.  But iCrossing, a “global digital marketing company,” has just received $62 million, and that’s definitely worth a closer look.

Google Surprise: A New Stock Sale
By · March 29, 2006

Another 5.3 million shares of GOOG, worth about $2.1 billion at current valuation, should help smooth the company’s entry into the S&P 500 index.

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