Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter… Or Is It?

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 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.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/Twitter Wouldn’t Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source
Update to our post last night about Google/Twitter talks: New sources say that Google is interested in acquiring Twitter, and has had talks with the company about a deal. Google’s internal valuation, however, would value the company at a token premium above Twitter’s last round of financing valuation, around $250 million. Some Twitter insiders want the deal, but our sources say CEO Evan Williams wouldn’t sell even for $1 billion. “He may blink, but he wouldn’t do it,” said one source.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/03/twitter-wouldnt-sell-for-1-billion-says-source/Stephen Colbert interviews Biz Stone of Twitter

Google ‘on verge’ of buying Twitter
Google is in “late stage” talks to buy the microblogging service Twitter, according to reports on the influential technology blog TechCrunch.Michael Arrington, editor of the site, says that “two separate people, close to the negotiations” have told him that Google is on the verge of acquiring Twitter. He says that he does not know how much the deal will be worth, but expects it to be well in excess of the $250 million valuation that Twitter attracted in its last round of funding.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/twitter/5099047/Google-on-verge-of-buying-Twitter.html