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Since Twitter Won’t Sell, Who Should Facebook Buy?
mashable.com - 11/25/2008
Since Twitter Won’t Sell, Who Should Facebook Buy?
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The hot rumor today is that Facebook and Twitter held “several weeks of serious talks” about an acquisition recently, which have since come to an end after the two were unable to reach an agreeable price for the microblogging service. Alas, there are greater tragedies. While Twitter might be ...
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/24/2008
When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled
— kara.allthingsd.com — About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was... offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with ... (more) When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That ...

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blog.facebook.com - 11/24/2008
Making Facebook Safe Against Spam
— blog.facebook.com — Last Friday, Facebook won an important victory for our users – and against spam and those who... create it. We've all experienced spam – those unwanted and, sometimes, inappropriate marketing messages. (more) Making Facebook Safe Against Spam

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businessweek.com - 11/21/2008
Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption
— businessweek.com — The social networking giant received a waiver from the Securities & Exchange Commission so it can keep... handing out equity to new employees By Spencer E. Ante Earlier this year the social networking site Facebook grew concerned that an obscure ... (more) Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption

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Webware.com:  It's a good thing Facebook's not buying Twitter

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It's a good thing Facebook's not buying Twitter
Webware.com — ... never been put to the test of generating a dime. Twitter may be hot, but it is, so far, not a business. Facebook is a business. However, it would be good for Facebook to take Twitter off the market so another company -- Google, perhaps, or a wireless carrier -- doesn't snap it up. But even given that, I believe Facebook has better opportunities ahead of it than what Twitter offers. See also: 11 Twitter business models: Vote for the best. Mashable: Since Twitter Won't Sell, Who Should Facebook Buy? ...

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Really Guys. "Gossip Baiter"?
battellemedia.com 11/24/2008 — Those who know me know I tend to prepare for my discussions with leaders onstage at Web 2. You may recall during my conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, I asked whether Facebook was going to buy Twitter. A round of blogospherian eye rolling ensued. ...
Facebook’s failed attempt to buy Twitter — PR News:
For those of you who thought that Black Friday was the only thing going on in the world, you would be mistaken. One of the biggest stories doing to rounds over in Silicon Valley is Facebook’s failed attempt to buy Twitter, for the massive sum of $500 million in stock. Twitter has not gone ...
High school 2.0: Twitter rejects Facebook, wants more status — VentureBeat
Leading social network Facebook tried to buy popular micro-messaging service Twitter a few weeks ago, BoomTown reports , confirming a previous suggestion of the deal. It apparently didn’t work out because Facebook offered Twitter $500 million in stock at its preferred-stock valuation of ...
How Much Is Twitter Worth to Facebook? — Bits
A proposed deal for Facebook to buy Twitter reportedly broke down over price, echoing Yahoo's failed deal to buy Facebook two years ago.
Twitter And Facebook Breakup, Never Really "Dating" — Homotron.net
So, like, Twitter and Facebook were totally, like, dating. But not dating, cause they didn't want to tell anyone, right. So then Twitter was all like "Your way in my bubble! I need to figure out who I am before I get bogged down by someone else." And Facebook was all like, "Well, whatevs! I ...
Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook* — Silicon Alley Insider
UPDATE: TheDeal.com hears that $100 million of the $500 million offer was cash. EARLIER: Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons: At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the ...
Rumor: Facebook Wanted To Buy Twitter For $500 Million In Stock — Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews
According to Kara Swisher , Facebook wanted to buy Twitter for $500 million in stock. But the talks ended about 3 weeks ago when Evan Williams, founder of Twitter turned them down. Zuckerberg stated that he’s “really impressed by what they’ve done” at Twitter at the ...
Facebook Tries to Buy Twitter, Thinks Status Updates are Very Important — Inside Facebook
Facebook recently initiated acquisition talks with Twitter for $500 million in Facebook stock, but those talks fell apart as recently as three weeks ago, Kara Swisher reports . Execs at Facebook, who have long been impressed with Twitter, were trying to make the purchase at Facebook’s ...
Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — Webware.com
So maybe it wasn't just egregious Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter . Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reported early Monday morning that the two companies had been in ...
Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — The Social
So maybe it wasn't just egregious Valley gossip-baiting when Federated Media CEO John Battelle asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month if his company was going to buy Twitter . Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reported early Monday morning that the two companies had been in ...
Facebook Tries, Fails to Buy Twitter — AppScout
It seems like only yesterday that Facebook itself was at the center of a good old-fashioned bidding war. Now the massively popular social networking site is apparently looking to pick up some its own big name Web 2.0 properties. Rumors of the social networking site's attempted acquisition of ...
Twitter Rejects Facebook Buyout Bid — Tech Observer
Sam Gustin writes : Facebook tried to buy Twitter as recently as last month, but the micro-blogging phenom turned down the offer, according to a new report. http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081124/when-twitter-met-facebook-the-acquisition-deal-that-fail-whaled/  ...
Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook — Silicon Alley Insider
Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons: At Facebook's real valuation, $5 billion or so, the offer only amounted to $150 million (not bad for two-year old company with no revenue, but a ...
How Facebook nearly bought Twitter — Tech Digest
When it comes to Social Networking sites, Facebook is the current undisputed king. When it comes to microblogging and 'status update', however, Twitter rules. Facebook knows this, which is why it offered US$500 million's worth of stock to Twitter, three weeks ago, to buy it. Fortunately, or ...
Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke? — CNET News.com
Apparently, Facebook really was trying to buy Twitter. But Twitter's investors and executives would rather come up with a business model first, AllThingsD reported.