Leading social network Facebook tried to buy popular micro-messaging service Twitter a few weeks ago, BoomTown reports, confirming a previous suggestion of the deal. It apparently didn’t work out because Facebook offered Twitter $500 million in stock at its preferred-stock valuation of $15 billion, not its common-stock valuation of somewhere between... (Read more)
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