Goldman Sachs

...Bill Gates also made appearances. Banking bigs, including Lloyd Blankfein, head of Goldman Sachs, and Jamie Dimon, of JPMorgan Chase, stopped by in March for a meeting on reviving the industry. Lobbyists, barred by Obama from donating...

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...Rex Tillerson, former AIG chairman Maurice Greenberg, JP Morgan's James Dimon, Chevron CEO David O'Reilly, Citigroup's Vikram Pandit, and Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein. Other visitors included Morgan Stanley's John Mack, Bank of...

In this article: George Soros, Barack Obama, White House, Oprah Winfrey, George Clooney, Bill Gates, Service Employees International Union, John Mack, David O'Reilly, and Kenneth Lewis

...no and the applicant is rejected. Given its commitment to hiring the cream of the world's talent, it is perhaps unsurprising that Bill Gates once described Goldman Sachs as Microsoft's biggest competitor. "It's all about IQ," said Gates.

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...of money. The stakeholders of the company -- its bondholders, shareholders, lenders and clients -- want traders and other professionals to make that money because the better the company does the better the stakeholders do. These stars...

In this article: Wall Street, Capitalism, AIG, Citigroup, New York, and US

...for help in bailing out Long-Term Capital Management, a sickly hedge fund to which it was exposed. It sought a contribution from Warren Buffett. But the Oracle of Omaha was on holiday (with Bill Gates, of course) and as the deadline approached...

In this article: Warren Buffett, Wall Street, Long-Term Capital Management, Salomon Brothers, and Bill Gates

...Oracle of Omaha still has a few things to teach Wall Street. Not only is he bailing out Goldman Sachs single-handedly, he also just overtook Bill Gates as the world's richest man. * Clive Davis. It wasn't long ago that Arista Records thought...

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...was, he answered "Goldman Sachs. " He didn't see Apple or IBM as his top competition-rather, it was Goldman Sachs which was competing with Microsoft for the top talent from colleges and graduate schools. In many people's minds, Google has...

In this article: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, Larry Page, Facebook, Sony, and Bill Gates

...handful of appearances since his promotion last June to replace Bill Gates as chief software architect, told analysts and investors at a Goldman Sachs conference in Las Vegas that he has been laying the groundwork for programmers across the...

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...Nast Portfolio said. Writing on Buffett, the publication said that when the Oracle of Omaha bought a piece of Goldman Sachs last year, not only did he receive better terms than the government, he got better returns. "As of February,...

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