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Google wants to acquire Twitter, talks are on

By Fabio on Friday April 3rd 2009 04:08 | Category: Web

Google has it's eyes on a close partnership or possibly an acquisition of the immensely popular micro blogging site Twitter, that's what TechCrunch reports. Twitter is supposed to be worth far over 250 million dollars.

TechCrunch writes that the negotiations for a possible acquisition of Twitter by Google are in a far stadium and are near to facing it's conclusion. Another source however claims that the two companies are yet to talk business and the conversations were no more than orientation conversations and that the main topic is about a collaborative effort to build a realtime search engine.

Google is not the first major party showing interest for the microblogging-site. Twitter rejected an offer made by Facebook in November last year. This company offered 500 million dollars but wanted to pay parts of that sum in Facebook-stock and these would have been overvalued.

TechCrunch says Google would get great business if they acquire Twitter, whatever the costs of the acquisition. If Google with it's searchtechnologies could make the always growing Twitter blogstream more arranged that would be worth a lot of money. Company's could use Twitter for marketing research for instance. Rumor also has it that Microsoft showed interest, the softwaregiant can't afford to lose this microblogging-site to Google. Microsoft would then lose too much ground in the search engine business.

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