Archive for April 6th, 2009

6th April
2009
written by Brian

The latest scoop on the tech circuit is about Google negotiating to merge with the popular social networking and microblogging site, Twitter. Techcrunch maintainer, Michael Arrington has revealed that three sources have lent credibility to this rumor circulating the blogosphere.

In his first post, Arrington said Twitter had rejected a whopping half a billion-dollar offer from Facebook. In a later post, sources from Twitter said the owner wouldn’t sell even for $1 billion.

The main question is whether Google can really profit from this acquisition. Analysts have deduced that this symbiotic relationship can help Google to better its search results and eliminate any possible threats from Twitter due to its rising microblogging superiority.

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