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Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding. Twitter turned down an offer to be bought b (Read More)
: I was amazed that the Facebook offer was not accepted but as this story points out the Facebook stock is not and cannot be considered the same as cash. Google can and will pay cash if they want but Google and Twitter do not seem to be as good or logical fit as Facebook and Twitter may have been.
: Twitter is a search engine & as a marketer, imagine the potential of knowing what your customers are thinking & saying in real time about you or the competition? Killer information. Besides, the BORG needs to continue to feed & assimilate.
Submitted by Kurt P:
Between the Covers on National Review Online.
Philip Freeman on St. Patrick of Ireland
Philip Freeman, author of St. Patrick of Ireland: A Biography, says, "[St. Patrick's Day] really is an American phenomenon. To a lesser extent Canada and Australia too, but it's really America that invented the modern St. Patrick's day and then exported it back to Ireland.". (Read More)