Why Facebook's attempt to takeover Twitter failed

Determining Facebook's true value is a matter of heated debate. Since Facebook is a private company, there is no liquid market for its stock. When Microsoft (MSFT) bought preferred stock in the company in 2007, it valued Facebook at $15 billion. Around the same time, Facebook placed an internal valuation of the company company's shares of common stock at about $3.7 billion, according to court documents. The Palo Alto company relied on the appraisal to value employee stock options fairly and avert possible tax problems. But since then, the valuations of most private tech startups have fallen along with stock markets. In November, the blog All Things Digital reported that Facebook was in talks to acquire the fast-growing micro-blogging service Twitter for $500 million, most of it in Facebook stock.

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