Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 10:45 am
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/02/sources-google-in-late-stage-talks-to-buy-t witter/
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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 $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 1:33 pm
Naturally. With the exception of Micro$oft's systems, Google owns pretty much everything else on the "Internet" (so it seems) that has anything even remotely resembling a "search" function, so all I can say is: who DIDN'T see this coming?
(I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Google's in talks with the KDE project to acquire Kwrite because it has a "Find Text" function. Zounds........)
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 1:56 pm
Google is about to take over our company as well. Got to retire sometime.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 3:37 pm
Gargle is taking over Salem FM. Mouthwash company. Or so they say. Could be porn. The offer was too good to pass up.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 5:13 pm
Media ownership consolidation: it's not just for "traditional" broadcasting and record companies anymore.
I can't say that I understand or appreciate the appeal of the "micro-blogging" capabilities of Twitter. To me, it seems that stuff like this represent subtle ways by which young people are being made comfortable with the idea of voluntarily giving up privacy. Or, I might just be a real-life Dale Gribble.
Wednesday, April 08, 2009 - 6:47 pm
I'm not so worried about Internet consolidation, but for ISP's.
Those are growing quite consolidated and the usual crap is beginning to appear. Price gouging, lower quality of service, etc... where ever there isn't sufficient competition, we get this stuff. Also, they are pushing non-neutral policy. None of that is good.
On the net itself though, consolidation isn't such a bad thing, so long as there is a separation between hardware / software makers and Internet communication standards and protocols.
We've had a bump or two, but nothing that has an impact yet.
If too many entities bundle up, and the result is less than satisfactory, or threatens the open net, there will be push back as new options can appear and be useful rather quickly.
