Google made a new offer to purchase the service Twitter

In any case, this is what the journalists of the rather well-known edition of Business Insider believe. The publication does not disclose its informants, but pretty confidently reports that Google has offered $ 4 billion to the current owners of the Twitter service. It is worth recalling that earlier this year a similar proposal was already made, but then it was a question of an amount of about 2.5 billion. Twitter management then replied that there was no question of selling the service for such a "ridiculous" amount. Well, in the light of the ever-growing popularity of the microblogging service, this amount may indeed seem ridiculous.

Just about two years ago, the same Google offered several hundred million dollars, and the prospects for the service were then much more foggy than today. At that time, no one understood how Twitter was going to become profitable, and the management of the resource did not say anything intelligible about this, escaping with rather vague promises. Of course, without the idea of ​​monetization, without the 500 million users that Twitter has now, there was no question of billions of dollars.

By the way, then, two years ago, some experts believed that Twitter was at the peak of popularity, and soon this popularity would begin to fade. The management quickly found a way out - immediately contracts were signed with Google and Microsoft, according to which Twitter in a certain way integrated into Google and Bing. Interestingly, for this, corporations not only did not take money from Twitter, but they themselves paid - about $ 16 million each.

In principle, nothing is impossible for Google at the moment - the corporation has significant free funds (about 25-30 billion dollars), which the company’s management wants to spend profitably for itself, forcing the money to work, as is customary. In addition to Twitter, Google also plans to acquire services such as Groupon, a joint purchase service, and Foursquare, which is gaining momentum in geoservice with the function of evaluating bars, restaurants, hotels, cinema and other places.

Well, if all three purchases are completed, then we can really say that the corporation “owns the world”, or rather, a very significant part of the Internet sphere. Let's see what comes of it all. It's time to buy popcorn.

Via businessinsider