Tag Archives: m&a

Why Didn’t Twitter Buy TweetDeck?

By Mark Evans | Published: February 12, 2011
One of the games that Twitter-watchers like playing is creating lists of the company’s potential acquisitions now that it has oodles of venture capital cash sitting in a bank. The lists includes companies such as TweetDeck, TwitPic, TwitVid, Seesmic and HootSuite. Well, we can cross TweetDeck off the list now that it has been purchased [...]
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Tweetie: The Start of Twitter’s M&A Activity?

By Mark Evans | Published: April 10, 2010
When Twitter raised $100-million of venture capital last September, one of the things it sparked was a lively discussion about acquisitions, which led to speculation about who could be on the target list – Tweetdeck, TwitPic, Seesmic, et al. Well, Twitter has made a deal but probably not what many people expected. Twitter has entered [...]
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Twitter’s Dearth of Deals

By Mark Evans | Published: July 5, 2009
Twitter has plenty of venture capital in the bank – enough from the outside looking in to let it operate for a couple of years without having to worry about generating a dime of revenue. Meanwhile, the Twitter ecosystem continues to grow and evolve as third-party developers create new and interesting services using Twitter’s API. [...]
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