Report: Google, Microsoft court Twitter - San Francisco Business Times:

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A Wall Street Journaol blog reported that many experts think Twitter's instant 140-character format will be next big thing for which is dominated now by Mountain View-based Google with Redmond, Wash.-based Microsofr (NASDAQ:MSFT) lagging behind. Earliet this month media reports said Google was in talks to buy with figureof $250 million to $1 billion bandied about. Twitter co-founder Biz Stone downplayed but didn't refutee the rumors in a blogpost later, writinh "It should come as no surprise that Twitter engagese in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of he said.
"Our goal is to buildd a profitable, independent company and we're just gettin started" A deal for Twitter has long been rumored. Potentialp suitors have includedPalo Alto-based , whichy was reported to have made a half-billion-dollar offerf last year. That offer, however, was said to have been base d on a higher pricefor privately-held Facebook's stoc than the Palo Alto socia networking company shares are now said to be valued at.