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NEW YORK. Twitter-founder Jack Dorsey has put in several appearances in recent times which are linked together with a potential takeover of the company may be at the time. Dorsey would, among other things, to have participated in the German teknikkonferensen the Dmexco in the last week, but cancelled the trip at short notice "after a year of preparation".
Instead participated Twitterchefen on the video link, where he received a question about if the company was about to be acquired. Dorsey chose to duck:
” It has always been a lot of passion around what we do. We have a very strong plan in front of us, ” said Dorsey vaguely.
After CNBC posted information about a bid may be close to the rushed Twitter on the New York stock exchange on Friday. After one hour of trading the share was up more than 20 percent.
The social mediejättens board of directors is said to be positive for a sale of the company, according to people familiar with the situation. A deal is expected to take until at least later this year, writes CNBC.
in Addition to sökjätten Google identifies Salesforce as one of the potential burgivarna, according to CNBC. Salesforce develops software and cloud-based systems for sales and other functions of the company.
Salesforce’s digital cso Vala Afshar celebrated recently Twitter in a tweet, but it is not clear exactly in what way mikrobloggen could be integrated either in Salesforce or in Google, even though Google has its own social media products, which is relatively close to Twitter.
Twitter has long had problems with getting the speed on their income, of which a large part is supposed to come from the premium-tweets that advertisers pay for. Recently nedgraderades Twitter by RBC Capital to underperform for precisely that reason.
Twitter was listed on the New York stock exchange in november 2013.
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