{"id":19286,"date":"2011-02-10T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=19286"},"modified":"2011-02-10T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T01:27:00","slug":"google-inc-mired-in-red-reportedly-in-hunt-to-acquire-twit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/10\/google-inc-mired-in-red-reportedly-in-hunt-to-acquire-twit\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Inc. Mired in Red; Reportedly in Hunt to Acquire Twit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc, (GOOG) is down fractionally on a report that it has held low  level talks with Twitter to sound out the social networking site about  being acquired for as much as $10 billion. Privately held Facebook, Inc.  has also reportedly held similar talks, according to a report in The  Wall Street Journal. Twitter was valued at $3.7 billion in December  after it raised $200 million in another round of financing. It currently  has in excess of 175 million users. Google opened down 75 cents at  $615.75 and fell to a low of $612.18 before paring losses to trade at  $612.80, down $3.70, or 0.60%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc, (GOOG) is down fractionally on a report that it has held low level talks with Twitter to sound out the social networking site about being acquired for as much as $10 billion. Privately held Facebook, Inc. has also reportedly held similar talks, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Twitter was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/02\/10\/google-inc-mired-in-red-reportedly-in-hunt-to-acquire-twit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Inc. Mired in Red; Reportedly in Hunt to Acquire Twit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}