Acquisition Dance Between Facebook And Twitter Over For Now?
TechCrunch — ... or about an impending deal breaking down. But this time, Kara Swisher over at BoomTown offers a bit of insight about the deal size. According to Kara (and her sources), Facebook was offering $500 million of its stock at the infamous (and ridiculous) ...

Acquisition Talks Between Facebook And Twitter Break Down
mocoNews — ... So, Twitter still believes they can figure out how to generate some revenues. Kara Swisher is reporting that the rumors between Facebook acquiring Twitter were not only true, but that talks broke down three weeks ago between the microblogging company and Facebook. The social net was offering to acquire the company for $500 million of its stock, but Twitter execs and investors apparently believe the company should "take a shot" at building revenues "as well as it [has] done building its growth" and not just jump at the first chance it got to sell ...

Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook
Silicon Alley Insider — ... 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 far cry from the billion-dollar dream) Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year. Twitter's investors aren't stupid: They wanted cash. Facebook presumably doesn't have that much cash to spare. Kara Swisher: The $500 million offered was in an all-stock form, said sources on both sides, ...

First Bytes: IBM, Sony, Twitter, Facebook, Google
Tech Observer — IBM gives cloud computing a seal of approval. [GigaOm] Sony to re-launch video entertainment site Crackle with original content web shows. [TechCrunch] The failure of the Twitter and Facebook deal. [AllThingsDigital] Online holiday sales look grim. [AllThingsDigital] Why did Google discontinue SearchMash? [TechCrunch] --Andrea Chalupa Related Links First Bytes: Google, Bezos, Facebook, more First Bytes: Facebook, Apple, IBM, More First Bytes: Facebook, ...

Is Twitter worth $500m?
Geek In Disguise — Wow…quite a story from Kara Swisher today that Facebook was interested in buying Twitter for $500m. Okay, I love Twitter as much as anyone but $500m is a big chunk of cash for something that isn’t making money at the moment. That’s not to say that it couldn’t and I think the only way Twitter is going is up but in the current climate, that’s a big wedge. Personally I think Twitter is right to hold out but hope it’s all a big game of Russian roulette.

Twitter Rejects Facebook Buyout Bid
Tech Observer — ... http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081124/when-twitter-met-facebook-the-acquisition-deal-that-fail-whaled/ ...

Facebook Tries, Fails to Buy Twitter
AppScout — ... So, what was the breaking point? All Things D suggests, not surprisingly, that it came down to a question of money--i.e., is $500 of Facebook stock actually worth that much? It's a fair question, certainly, especially in this economic environment.

Twitter Declines Acquisition Deal From Facebook
WebProNews Feed — ... Says "no thanks" to $500 million in stock There are probably more than a few sighs of relief being breathed inside MySpace's offices this morning. A new report indicates that an attempted acquisition of Twitter by Facebook has failed. According to Kara Swisher and "sources on both sides," "About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks . . ." A full $500 million - in the form of Facebook's stock - was on the table. Twitter hasn't made much of an attempt to earn revenue, however, which likely means that its bank accounts and relationships ...

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 acquisition talks--but that they'...

Twitter rebuffs a Facebook poke?
Webware.com — ... . Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reported early Monday morning that the two companies had been in acquisition talks--but that they've fallen through. ...

Facebook Thrown Out of Tree After Caught Kissing With Twitter
SocialTimes.com — ... such a notion was ludicrous. This morning, Kara Swisher revealed that acquisitions discussions were actually taking place but eventually ended in failure. ...

A Dealmaker’s Take on the Facebook/Twitter Non-Deal: Madness
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology — What to make of this rumor that Facebook was about to acquire Twitter for $500M in stock? 1 - Facebook did not want to do this deal, if it did, it would not offer $500M of stock at a $15B valuation when everyone now pegs Facebook’s value at $5B most.  After all, most media companies are at 33-50% off their year-ago prices.  Facebook would be no different.  Even at the time, MSFT never said “We think Facebook is worth $15B”, it was a deal to mark its territory and if those were Facebook’s rules of engagement, it was worth it to ...

This Phantasmagoric Life: Acquisition Talks Between Facebook And Twitter Break Down
paidContent — ... So, Twitter still believes it can figure out how to generate some revenues. Kara Swisher is reporting that the rumors about Facebook acquiring Twitter were not only true, but that talks between the microblogging company and the social-network site broke down three weeks ago. The social net was offering to acquire the company for $500 million of its stock, but Twitter execs and investors apparently believe the company should "take a shot" at building revenues "as well as it [has] done building its growth" and not just jump at the first chance it ...

Report: Twitter Turns Down $500 Million Offer From Facebook
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... The supposed deal, uncovered by BoomTown’s Kara Swisher, had reached the point of “several weeks of serious talks” before falling through just recently. The reason? Mainly money, Swisher says. ...

News Bits: Twitter Rejects Facebook's Friend Request
Contentinople: — ... have been apparently mulling a merger over the past few weeks -- and who could blame them? Social networking and microblogging go together like... one mind-numbing thing and another mind-numbing thing. But Twitter has reportedly rejected Facebook's offer . There was a disagreement over the offered price -- $500 million of Facebook stock, which Twitter felt was inflated. But really, Boomtown 's Kara Swisher says, Twitter just wasn't ready to sell and hopes to give its ...

Around the Web 11.24.08: Web vigilantes, Twitter-Facebook talks, blog overload
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... other monikers for its search engine. How does "Kumo" roll off the tongue? TechCrunch -- Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Lab is tackling the U.S. market by fighting new threats in new ways. USA Today -- Sony's Crackle video site, gets The Groundlings comedy troupe and other new material. TechCrunch -- Twitter reportedly turned down a $500-million buyout offer from Facebook. BoomTown -- No money for IT: more companies are planning to cut back on tech ...

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. ...

Twitter Sounds Like a Good Fit for Facebook
Technologizer — ... News has surfaced from Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital about apparent talks that had been ongoing between Twitter and Facebook. Under the discussed terms, Facebook would have acquired the micro-blogging site for $500 million in Facebook stock. Facebook initiated the talks in mid-October, but they seemed to have broken off sometime around the beginning of this month. The reasons for the breakdown in talks was the typical merger concerns over integration and whatnot. However, it also appears as if some within Twitter wanted to first try to build up the revenue side of their ...

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 Web 2.0 Summit. Twitter is “a very elegant model.” ...

Really Guys. "Gossip Baiter"?
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... Honestly, I rarely ask questions that don't have a point. As Kara reports today, turns out there were talks - and they were going on right when I asked the question. So far, nothing has come of them, but they got serious enough for a number to be thrown around - $500 million. Cnet was kind enough to give me a bit of ...

Twitter is smart to reject Facebook and go it alone
Between the Lines — ... Talks between Facebook and Twitter have broken down, Kara Swisher reports in a post on the Boomtown blog today, and - on the surface - it looks like the dividing issue was money. (Isn’t it always?) Facebook was offering $500 million in Facebook stock based on what what Twitter considered to be an inflated valuation. So, Twitter said no and the two have apparently moved on. ( ...

Twitter Rejects $500 Million Takeover Offer From Facebook*
Silicon Alley Insider — ... 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 far cry from the billion-dollar dream) Twitter has high hopes for its own secret revenue model which will be announced next year. Twitter's investors aren't stupid: They wanted cash. Facebook presumably doesn't have that much cash to spare. Kara Swisher: The $500 million offered was in an all-stock form, said sources on both sides, ...

Since Twitter Won’t Sell, Who Should Facebook Buy?
Mashable! — ... 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. ...

How Much Is Twitter Worth to Facebook?
Bits — Facebook has walked away from talks to buy Twitter because the $500 million price tag was too high, according to a report by AllThingsD. For Facebook to be a picky value shopper is quite a turnabout from just two years ago, when Yahoo walked away from a ...

It's a good thing Facebook's not buying Twitter
Webware.com — ... Twitter and Facebook seem like a nice match, don't they. It was no surprise that rumors started about a Facebook acquisition of Twitter. It was hardly a shocker when the rumors turned out to be true. But it's good that the talks fell apart. (Story source: Kara Swisher: When Twitter met Facebook.) From the outside, it looks like Facebook and Twitter could be happy social stablemates. Facebook has its own Twitter-like function, but it's not the core of the service. Twitter gets its users talking, but doesn't have the robust ...

High school 2.0: Twitter rejects Facebook, wants more status
VentureBeat — ... 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 $15 billion, not its common-stock valuation of ...

Silcon Valley Story: Twitter Please Don’t Be Web 2.0 Pointcast - Don’t Pull a Pointcast
Furrier.org - John Furrier's Personal Blog — ... Twitter was offered $500 million from Facebook as reported by Kara Swisher (who has an accurate reporting record). Let me get this on the record: I love Twitter. From the day that my friend Dan Bricklin showed me Pyra I’ve been watching Ev and his team at Pyra, Odeo, and then Twitter I have been a big fan of those product guys. Twitter has been a ‘whale of a hit’. I remember when I started PodTech we moved the needle with Twitter at SXSW in 2007 not only was it fun, but it was effective. Since that time in early 2007 Twitter ...

Twitter was wise to reject Facebook’s $500 million all-stock acquisition offer.
Fast Company - Technology — According to Kara Swisher , about three weeks ago Twitter rejected a deal in which Facebook offered to acquire it for $500 million of its stock, which also included a cash component. Swisher reports that the deal broke down for a number of reasons, perhaps the most prominent of which was timing: " Well, as is usually the case, (the deal falthered) over price–was $500 million worth of Facebook stock actually worth $500 million?–and the typical concerns about integration and costs. But, more important, it seems, was a feeling among Twitter investors and execs that the start-up ...

Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook
Bits — ... on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” Mr. Williams said. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” Ultimately, he said, Twitter decided that it had too much left to do, beginning with figuring out how to make money. “Maybe we’ll see each other in the marketplace,” Mr. Williams said. Twitter, which lets users broadcast messages of up to 140 characters via cell phone or the Web, began to take off in ...

Bits: Why Twitter Turned Down Facebook
NYT > Technology — ... on Oct. 16. Twitter reportedly rejected Facebook’s $500 million, mostly stock offer several weeks ago. “We explored it, as we should. We took it seriously,” Mr. Williams said. “It definitely made sense — the strategy we talked about with them — but it wasn’t the right time.” Ultimately, he said, Twitter decided that it had too much left to do, beginning with figuring out how to make money. “Maybe we’ll see each other in the marketplace,” Mr. Williams said. Twitter, which lets users broadcast messages of up to 140 characters via cell phone or the Web, began to take off in ...

Google Friend Connect now supports Twitter, not Facebook
Betanews — ... , and though Twitter rejected a buyout offer from Facebook, an integration with Facebook Connect is still in the works, according to Twitter CEO Evan Williams. Yesterday Williams said (in tweet form, naturally), "For the record: Twitter did not 'choose Google, not Facebook.' We're working with both. We have more to do on the [Facebook] side before launch."

Google Friend Connect now supports Twitter
Betanews — ... , and though Twitter rejected a buyout offer from Facebook, an integration with Facebook Connect is still in the works, according to Twitter CEO Evan Williams. Yesterday Williams said (in tweet form, naturally), "For the record: Twitter did not 'choose Google, not Facebook.' We're working with both. We have more to do on the [Facebook] side before launch."

Twitter Trails Facebook in Traffic
Internet Evolution: — ... , it would take Twitter 36 years (in human time) to catch up to where Facebook is today in terms of site growth. Well. Everyone loves a good chart. Especially one that looks like the above, where there's a clear difference in traffic on two sites regularly making headlines. But do we really expect a site like Twitter to match up to Facebook in traffic? Like, ever? It's not logical. And while Twitter turned down a $500 million deal (in stock) to be acquired by Facebook in early November, it only makes sense that at some point Twitter, which has no business model and ...

Predictions 08: How Did I Do?
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... Always the subject of takeover rumors wrt MSFT and GOOG, Facebook worked very hard to make me look like a genius when it tried to acquire Twitter last month. Alas, Evan decided to make this prediction a tantalizing "almost." ...

In dry times, Twitter going back to the funding well?
VentureBeat — ... for something in the range of $500 million — but that was all in stock, and Twitter wanted some cash, reported BoomTown at the time. The other problem with that deal was that the $500 in stock was based on Facebook’s ridiculously high $15 billion valuation from Microsoft’s investment in 2007. The common-stock valuation has Facebook valued more in the range of $4-$5 billion. ...

Twitter: Possibly Valued at $250 Million
ReadWriteWeb — ... revenue models, and while they may not be able to implement them in the time Williams anticipates, a plan may just be enough to entice the VCs into giving them some breathing space. While many other startups are experiencing financial difficulties; the recent cut backs at Digg, the shutting down of Pownce, remarkably Twitter has stood out from the rest by getting on with the job, investing in Summize, working on scalability, rejecting Facebook's offer, hiring new staff, and generally focusing on the product. Twitter has so ...

Breaking down the walled garden: Some thoughts on Facebook embracing OpenID and opening up status update APIs
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life — ... Twitter has shown the value of having open APIs for link sharing and status updates which isn't lost on Facebook given their failed attempt to acquire Twitter. Sharing status updates is a powerful way for humans to connect in social contexts and given Facebook's goal to be the world's social operating system we can expect them to make more moves in this space. It's particularly interesting to see how people use status updates as a way to communicate and share experiences during news events such as President Obama's inauguration. Facebook saw this first hand with their ...

Facebook and Twitter: There’s blood everywhere, but no one is dying
VentureBeat — ... hate to reuse my twisting of the catch phrase from the old Highlander films, but I feel compelled to remind everyone once again: There can be more than one. Everyone is all worked up about Facebook killing Twitter now because it opened its application programming interfaces (APIs) a bit more to allow for status updates from Facebook to be passed through to other sites. This is an especially sexy claim to make right now because Facebook made an offer to buy Twitter back in November, which Twitter turned down. Facebook is obviously ...

Twitter Could 'Go For Years' Without Earning a Dime, Investor Says
Wired: Epicenter — ... Facebook offered to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock several months ago, which also included a cash component, but they turned them down believing that Twitter could make do on its own over time -- which seems to be the case in terms of growth at least. ...

Twitter and Facebook share a lot in common, and are still said to be talking
VentureBeat — ... about the social network buying the hot micro-messaging site. While BoomTown’s Kara Swisher got a lot of details about the talks, a few more have trickled out in a new ...

Twitter and Facebook share a lot in common, and are said to still be talking
VentureBeat — ... about the social network buying the hot micro-messaging site. While BoomTown’s Kara Swisher got a lot of details about the talks, a few more have trickled out in a new ...

Facebook Mulls Options After Twitter Talks Fail
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... site intended to buy micro-blogging site Twitter. The Wall Street Journal 's tech blog, All Things Digital , reported on the talks in November, saying that Facebook wanted to buy Twitter for $500 million. Thiel told BusinessWeek that talks with Twitter continue, despite the disagreement. Officials for Facebook and Twitter have declined to comment on a possible deal between the two companies.

Facebook Mulls Options After Twitter Talks Fail
TechWeb — ... site intended to buy micro-blogging site Twitter. The Wall Street Journal's tech blog, All Things Digital , reported on the talks in November, saying that Facebook wanted to buy Twitter for $500 million. Thiel told BusinessWeek that talks with Twitter continue, despite the disagreement. Spokespersons for Facebook and Twitter have declined to comment on a possible deal between the two companies.

"Search Is A Pencil"
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... Unfortunately, Twitter said thanks, but no thanks. In response (and quite quickly, to its credit), Facebook last week announced, in essence, that if it can't buy Twitter, it's going to ...

Lessons From a South by Southwest Rookie
Advertising Age - Homepage — ... . Facebook does 1,000 things kind of OK. Doing one thing well always wins. Maybe Facebook will try to buy them again . Next year might really be the year for mobile. There are so many ...

Why Nobody Should Buy Twitter
Internet Evolution: — Rumors have been abundant lately about which tech giant is going to buy Twitter. The popular, yet profitless, damsel in distress was first rumored to be in talks with Facebook , which is funny, since Facebook can't make its own money and was purportedly ready to sink $500 million into Silicon Valley's newest money suck. Then, in April, ...

Google’s all aTwitter
GMSV — ... , Facebook , or a yet-to-be-rumored suitor ends up buying Twitter, if any, one thing’s for sure: It has to go down as one of the simplest, smallest ideas to make the big time. ...

Facebook and Twitter, who should go NOW?
Josh Chandler — ... It was in 2008 that Facebook had offered to buy Twitter.com for a reported $500 million, which transpired to not work out for the best. Twitter investors spoke shortly after the failed talks of how “the start-up (Twitter) should still take a shot at building its revenues” which as of now (June 2009) are non-existent. And yet in the vaguest sense, ...

Facebook Snaps Up FriendFeed
Technologizer — ... . The deal involves FriendFeed living on as a standalone site for now, but it sounds like the long-term idea is to build new FriendFeed-like features and technologies into Facebook itself. It’s clearly a major move in Facebook’s chess game with Twitter, and presumably reduces (but doesn’t eliminate) the possibility of Facebook buying Twitter itself at some point. ...