“No. We’re not for sale.” says Twitter Co-Founder.

Written on 6th May 2009                                                                                                              6 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

After a spell of rumors yesterday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone calmly told Barbara Walters on American national television, “No, we’re not for sale”.

Appearing on talk show ‘The View’, Twitter’s co-founder and Creative Director dismissed the rumors that have floaded the blogosphere and major news sources over the last 24 hours.

Yesterday, according to sources at TechCrunch and Valleywag, Twitter was in “final stage” negotiations with Apple to be acquired for approximately $700 million. Stone however made it clear that the site is focused entirely on developing new feature and remaining independent.

Other rumors floated around that Microsoft were also in with a chance to acquire the microblogging giant, but it appears Stone’s comments have dispelled them too.

It wouldn’t be the first time executives have attempted to dispel rumors publicly, yet continue to negotiate behind closed doors. In this case however, the rumors seemed a little far fetched from the start, after all Apple are known to have been involved in a number of acquisition pursuits which have seemingly fallen through.

via Mashable.

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FOR SALE: Fleck.com

Written on 16th October 2008                                                                                                              15 COMMENTS
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

Michael Arrington launching Fleck.com in New York.

The reason this blog exists is because we started a conference a few years back to promote our start-up: Fleck.com. Out of that conference grew this blog and a lot more beautiful stuff that keeps us occupied every day. Today, I want to give you an update on where we stand and announce some news.

We started Fleck.com in August 2005 and have been working on it ever since. We have a loyal, but small, group of users and great technology. Fleck is an Annotation Service with an important Sharing component. You can easily add notes to pages and share these annotated pages with groups you set-up or with Friends via email.

Our goal was to build a service that would make it extremely easy to share interesting content online within smaller, and bigger, companies. Sharing the “collective wisdom” is what we used as a pitch to the companies we talked to. It all works and it is scalable!

Current Fleck.com homepage

After three years however it is time for a change. Fleck needs a new home where it can flourish. It would be a great addition to a company that already has a loyal user group and would like to offer these users an exciting tool to tie them into their brand. We have talked to a few companies about such a deal but so far we haven’t been able to finalize anything.

So, now we are going public: Fleck is for sale! We know now that it won’t make us millionaires and our investors understand that they won’t see a great return on investment on this one. Our goal right now is to find a good partner and make sure Fleck gets another chance.

Interested? Contact patrick@fleck.com or leave a comment here.

Techcrunch wrote an article about it as well.

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