Set up 8-year bolted 6--the path of Twitter expansion for the acquisition of the race

It looks like the technology's merger strategy remains a Wall Street dish. U.S. time April 15, Twitter announced the acquisition of social data provider Gnip Company, although it did not disclose the exact amount of the acquisition, but does not prevent Wall Street to give praise. Twitter's shares surged 11.38% per cent to a 45.52 dollar/stock close, reversing a reversal of the drop--the unit had fallen from its recent high of $66.32 in February 4 to $40.05 in April 11 and a 2-month fall of more than 39.6%! "The previous period of time technology has been adjusted a lot, the market waiting for good news has been long, so for such a positive will have a greater response." "said Guo Jiayao, chief strategist at Silver Shing Wealth Management in China. Gnip, founded in 2008, is the first Twitter data partner to collaborate since 2010. As a "middleman", Gnip's partners include Facebook, TUMBLR, WordPress and Foursquare. The market believes that a takeover of Gnip could mean a shift in Twitter's Third-party platform strategy. "We want to make it easier to get our own data, and the best way to do that is to work directly with our customers to get a better understanding of their needs." Gnip plays a key role in the collection and analysis of our Open data. "After acquiring Gnip, the two plans to provide more mature and richer data and continue to share Twitter data with Gnip clients," Twitter said in a statement. Twitter, which was 8 years old in the 6-year takeover, began to expand through acquisitions as early as 2008. In July 1, Twitter completed its first acquisition and "scrambled" the headlines by rejecting Facebook's 500 million-dollar takeover plan. In 2008, Twitter acquired the search service Summize and mobile app developer values of N, which brought the information search technology, which added technology to its development and application. In the 2009, as Geolocation became a more important part of corporate strategy, Twitter bought Geoapi's developer, mixer Labs. In 2010 and 2011, Twitter completed 4 and 6 acquisitions respectively. Including the iphone's Twitter apps Tweetie developers, help them develop SMS services Cloudhopper, and so on, the only amount of disclosure is a transaction of Third-party client developers TweetDeck mergers and acquisitions, Twitter bought a 40 million-dollar developer with a better information management service than its clients. "For technology companies, some of the key factors that investors value include whether they have a better platform, whether they can retain customers, whether they have more loyal customers, and if there are platforms and customers, you can try a lot of different things. So tech companies will always look for potential mergers and acquisitions, enrich their own businesses, and prevent other companies from developing to replace themselves. "Guo Jiayao said. Starting in 2012, Twitter began to accelerate acquisitions and pave the road for IPOs. Over the past two years, Twitter has completed 9 acquisitions, involving mobile apps, data, advertising and other areas. "Continuous mergers and acquisitions can be said to be the survival strategy of technology companies, other industries can allow a market to have a number of different brands and companies, but for technology companies, to maintain market share is very important, if the winner is full win, the loss may be completely without the market." "Guo Jiayao thinks. How does the takeover feast last? However, the market is not bullish on any of the acquisitions of technology companies, in stark contrast to Facebook, which announced the takeover last month, where Wall Street vetoed the deal with a ruthless sell-off. "Each acquisition of funds, the acquisition of assets for the company's profit contribution, should be seen separately." Deng, general manager of AMTD Securities Business, believes that for Twitter, the short-term stimulus for gnip is more pronounced. In fact, earlier this month, Twitter just announced the acquisition of two European television data analysis companies, mesagraph of France and SecondSync of Britain. A few days later, the Android screen standby application vinyl has been bought by Twitter. But Wall Street's response to these acquisitions was not enthusiastic. On April 1, Twitter's share price rose only slightly by 0.58%, while the shares of Twitter fell 3.78% per cent after vinyl released its "package" message on April 8. "This vertical merger may, on the one hand, expand the company's revenue base and enhance its competitiveness." Wan, a senior financial expert and member of the Hong Kong Securities Institute, believes that the acquisition of Gnip may give Twitter the opportunity to quantify its customers ' use of data as a commercial product. By issuing data permits, Twitter empowers its data partners to capture, search, and analyze historical and real-time data on the Twitter platform, and these partners can use data to analyze user preferences, consumer habits, trends, and so on to gain profits. Data partners need to purchase a license to obtain some or all of the data within a certain period of time, generally this license period is 2 years. According to Twitter, data authorizations and other revenues rose 48% per cent to $70.34 million a year earlier, with five data partners contributing 72% per cent to 7% of the current period. "Mergers and acquisitions are the science and technology industry rules and development model, no enterprise is willing to lag behind." "For Twitter, avoiding gnip being taken away by rivals is one of the drivers of mergers," Wan said. Last year, Apple snapped up Twitter's data partner, Topsy,topsy, with 200 million dollars to access Twitter"Firehose" all the rights to push the text information flow. Now that Topsy is no longer providing Twitter data, Gnip has become the only provider of data for all of Twitter's historical data, and Twitter is clearly intolerant of being preempted by rivals. "Investors are concerned about whether mergers and acquisitions can help companies maintain market share or enrich existing businesses, and if these two points are not met, the market will not be particularly bullish on high bids." "Guo Jiayao thinks. The tech-merger feast continues, but no one knows how long the spree will last. "The world is waiting for Alibaba to go public, which may be the peak," he said. Wan believes that the current technology companies ' mergers and acquisitions boom will gradually cool down. The Weibo IPO faces a steep rebound in valuation pressures, with the delight of Twittter shareholders, perhaps a Twitter-like microblogging service. Weibo plans to issue 20 million shares per share of 17 to 19 U.S. dollars, which, according to the plan, will be priced in the United States by Wednesday, and for which the roadshow has been a bad time. Investment bankers close to the project told the 21st century Economic report that the IPO was not particularly desirable because of the fall in early technology stocks, and that the possibility of a successful sale faced greater uncertainty. Until the deadline, the reporter could not reach a spokesperson for the microblog. "The fall in the technology sector has had a negative impact on recent IPOs, with most IPOs falling in the end but valuations generally lower." "The investment bankers said. In addition to Weibo, the O2O Integration service platform, which is home to China, is also scheduled to be priced on the same day. Le Habitat submitted SEC documents showing that the company plans to issue a maximum of 12 U.S. dollars per share of the United States depository receipts to raise 244 million U.S. dollars. "Whether the two IPOs are complete or not, the valuation environment has changed, and Chinese technology companies that plan to list in the US in the short term may need to accept lower valuations." "The first-quarter results of listed companies may be a bit more stable in sentiment and may be the next catalyst for a market rebound," said investment bankers. The first two results are expected to inject a boost to Nasdaq. After the April 15 closing of the U.S. time, Yahoo and the company announced the results, both exceeded market expectations, trading hours after the closing price rose 7.8% and 2.1% respectively. "[The results] will help boost investor confidence. "Deng Xing believes that the stock price of stocks on the high, so that its defensive too bad, investors will worry if the profit growth rate is not keep up, share price pressure too big."