{"id":10002,"date":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"facebooks-thiel-explains-failed-twitter-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/facebooks-thiel-explains-failed-twitter-takeover.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook&#8217;s Thiel Explains Failed Twitter Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>INDYchannel.com &#8211; Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company&#8217;s directors and largest investors says. &quot;We&#8217;re still focusing on growing as much as possible,&quot; says Peter Thiel in an interview with BusinessWeek.<\/p>\n<p>In Facebook&#8217;s first public confirmation of the talks, Thiel said the parties disagreed over price and structure when they seriously considered a deal last fall. &quot;It became pretty clear it wasn&#8217;t going to happen,&quot; Thiel says from the mid-Manhattan office of his hedge fund Clarium Capital. &quot;The deal would have to be done with Facebook stock. And then you have to figure out how much the stock is worth.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.theindychannel.com\/money\/18831580\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDYchannel.com &#8211; Facebook remains on the lookout for acquisitions after its failed attempt to buy microblogging site Twitter, one of the company&#8217;s directors and largest investors says. &quot;We&#8217;re still focusing on growing as much as possible,&quot; says Peter Thiel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8382,5276,8381,4504,6595,8380,8378,8379,336],"class_list":["post-10002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-acquisitions","tag-businessweek","tag-facebook","tag-investors","tag-lookout","tag-manhattan-office","tag-peter-thiel","tag-public-confirmation","tag-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}