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

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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-twitter/

 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...

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/03/twitter-wouldnt-sell-for-1-billion-says-source/