Twitter stock sky rockets by 20% after reports that Google might be interested in buying it (as predicted by Furthr)
September 25, 2016
All last week, Furthr was hinting on social media that Google is poised to buy Twitter.
Well, now Twitter stock has skyrocketed by more than 20% after a Friday-morning report from CNBC said that the company was moving closer to a sale and that Google and Salesforce were among the interested suitors.
Bloomberg reported that Goldman Sachs is helping Twitter talk to potential buyers.
Twitter declined to comment in a statement to Bloomberg.
Google declined to comment on the report. Salesforce also declined to comment.
TechCrunch is reporting that Verizon is also interested.
Verizon owns TechCrunch parent company AOL and is also in the proces of buying Yahoo.
A Verizon representative declined to comment to Business Insider.
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