CEO Lloyd Blankfein

This morning Goldman Sachs announced that it led a $52 million round of Series C funding in AnchorFree, the Mountain View, Calif. maker of Internet-surfing software.  Goldman Sachs was the sole investor in this substantial round for the proxy service that lets users connect to the Internet via remote servers. Previously, AnchorFree raised $11 million (for Series A and B rounds) from Landmark Ventures and several others, and is now profitable because it sells ads and premium versions of its...Read Full Story

California-based privacy and security firm, AnchorFree, has just announced that it closed $52 million in a Series C round of funding, led by Goldman Sachs. In this latest round of investment, Goldman Sachs is joining existing investors including, Bert Roberts (former chairman and CEO of MCI); Russell Cleveland (president of RENN Capital Group); tech investor Esther Dyson; Greg Coleman (former president of The Huffington Post); Doug Maine (former CFO of IBM); Rick Roth (former CEO of Ogilvy...Read Full Story

How about a show of hands on who thinks the euro is headed lower, asked Goldman's Jim O'Neill at a January hedge fund conference, when the currency was about $1.26. Nearly every hand in the room shot up. Six weeks later, the euro was buying $1.35. "If Europe says something good," writes Upsidetrader, look for a big reversal in the euro, the dollar, and stocks.Read Full Story

LONDON (Business News) - Goldman Sachs (GS.N) is considering selling off Swedish oil group Svenska Petroleum Exploration in chunks, the Independent on Sunday reported. The UK newspaper said on Sunday that most potential bidders, including the UK's BP (BP.L) and Shell (RDSa.L), were not interested in the whole group, which is owned by Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoud.It citedRead Full Story

The insider-trading trial of former Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta, who is accused of spilling secrets about the investment bank, began on Monday with the government saying it would call a former top Goldman banker and a current board member as two of its first witnesses.Read Full Story

California-based privacy and security firm, AnchorFree, has just announced that it closed $52 million in a Series C round of funding, led by Goldman Sachs. In this latest round of...Read Full Story

Bloomberg TV anchor Erik Schatzker spoke with Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein today.  Blankfein said “shame on us in a way for not anticipating how important” public sentiment would be for maintaining Goldman’s reputation. Blankfein also said, “I tend to be a little more positive [on the markets] than what I’m hearing from other people…one of the big risks that people have to contemplate is that things go right.” Blankfein on public opinion of Goldman Sachs: ”I think...Read Full Story

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The deal that gave Goldman Sachs Group Inc a $5 billion boost from renowned investor Warren Buffett at the height of the 2008 financial crisis was "as top secret as you could get," a leading banker testified at the insider-trading trial of onetime Goldman board member Rajat Gupta. Former Goldman banker Byron Trott, a long-time Buffett confidant, told a Manhattan federal court jury that it was policy within a tightly-knit group of executives who negotiated such deals...Read Full Story

Goldman Sachs haunts the insider trading case against one of the Wall Street bank’s former directors, Rajat K. Gupta. As Gupta’s federal fraud trial opened to a packed New York courtroom Monday, his defense attorneys invoked Goldman almost immediately, arguing that others at that firm were responsible for feeding former hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam secrets that he illegally used for trading. “Even if there was a crime, Rajat Gupta had nothing to do with it. You’ve got the wrong guy...Read Full Story

Goldman Sachs’ Jim O’Neill has been approached by Britain’s finance ministry as a possible candidate to be the next governor of the Bank of England, the Sunday Times reported. O’Neill, who coined the term ‘BRIC’ in 2001 to describe how the economic clout of Brazil, Russia, India and China would challenge the West’s economic dominance, refused to comment when asked about the report, which did not cite its sources. The paper said officials from the Treasury, as Britain’s finance ministry is...Read Full Story