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Using Twitter stock to fund the takeover, Twitter announced in July 2008 it had acquired Summize. Summize had six employees, all of whom joined Twitter except for Verdy. [1] The month of the acquisition, Twitter changed both its page for real-time searches and its search API to use Summize's product. [2]
t. e. Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.
As of February 2024, the largest ever acquisition was the 1999 takeover of Mannesmann by Vodafone Airtouch plc at $183 billion ($334.7 billion adjusted for inflation). AT&T appears in these lists the most times with five entries, for a combined transaction value of $311.4 billion. Mergers and acquisitions are notated with the year the ...
Following months of endless twists and turns, the $44 billion Twitter saga has finally come to an end and the “bird is freed,” as Elon Musk tweeted on Oct. 27. The New York Stock Exchange has ...
Acquisition: Twitter acquires Trendrr, a real-time social data company. [75] 2013: September 9: Acquisition: Twitter acquires MoPub. [76] 2013: September 12: Financial/legal: Twitter announces that it has filed papers with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of a planned stock market listing. [77] 2013: October 4: Financial/legal
Twitter, Inc. was an American social media company based in San Francisco, California, which operated and was named for its flagship social media network prior to its rebrand as X. In addition to Twitter, the company previously operated the Vine short video app and Periscope livestreaming service.
t. e. X Corp. is an American technology company headquartered in Bastrop, Texas. [5] Established by Elon Musk in 2023 as the successor to Twitter, Inc. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of X Holdings Corp., which is itself mostly owned by Musk. The company owns the social networking service X (formerly Twitter), and has announced plans to use it ...
Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter in October 2022; Musk acted as CEO of Twitter until June 2023 when he was succeeded by Linda Yaccarino.In a move that, despite Yaccarino's accession, was widely attributed to Musk, [1] [2] Twitter was rebranded to X on July 23, 2023, [3] and its domain name changed from twitter.com to x.com on May 17, 2024.