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A comment on Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google. Parent comment

Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by pc86 on Friday September 23, 2016 @12:57PM (#12566075)
Why would anyone pay $10B for non-monetary value?
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by scdc on Friday September 23, 2016 @02:39PM (#12566945)
Because they think they can turn non-monetary value into $.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by mastazi on Friday September 23, 2016 @06:27PM (#12568402)
Because mind-share is sometimes more important than mere $. I'm not necessarily implying that buying Twitter for $10B is a good deal, but I can see why some market players would pay that money.
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