Posted on Friday, April 03 2009 @ 15:22 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TechCrunch
claims Google is in late stage acquisition talks with Twitter, the price is unknown but it's said to be well over the $250 million valuation that Twitter received in their recent funding.
Twitter turned down an offer to be bought by Facebook just a few months ago for half a billion dollars, although that was based partially on overvalued Facebook stock. Google would be paying in cash and/or publicly valued stock, which is equivalent to cash. So whatever the final acquisition value might be, it can’t be compared apples-to-apples with the Facebook deal.
Why would Google want Twitter? We’ve been arguing for some time that Twitter’s real value is in search. It holds the keys to the best real time database and search engine on the Internet, and Google doesn’t even have a horse in the game.
