Apple Might Invest in Twitter

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Updated Apr. 21, 2017 4:27PM EDT / Published Jul. 28, 2012 8:08AM EDT

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Apple has long made it easy to tweet from any iDevice imaginable. Now that close partnership may become financial. According to the New York Times, the company is considering making a "strategic investment" in the social networking site: a deal that could value Twitter at more than $10 billion, and put hundreds of millions of Apple's money at stake. Apple has an uneasy relationship with Facebook and Google, and a move on Twitter may be a way to fight back in an area where the tech giant has lagged: social networking. “Those guys are a great partner,” Twitter's CEO has said of Apple. “We think of them as a company that our company looks up to.”

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Apple Might Invest in Twitter

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