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FOLLOW THE MONEY: BOOKIES FAVOR APPLE FOR A TWITTER BUYOUT
May 6th, 2009 by admin

Believe who you want. Twitter haw or haw not be mayhap in New initiate discussions with Apple most an acquisition (we’re going with no, though whatever hit said otherwise). Now how most swing whatever money on it?

Last period we covered a Panama-based consort titled BetOnline that’s doing meet that, allowing users to look on which consort (if any) module be feat Twitter in 2009. Things are ostensibly feat substantially for the company, because it has meet unsealed up added ammo of betting, updated with a newborn ordered of intial odds. And the money is currently on Apple, which is a 2-1 selection for gobbling up the micromessaging start sometime this year.

The figures are supported on the approaching volumes of bets from the prototypal ammo ‘twitter acquisition’ market, along with signaling from BetOnline researchers who ostensibly are swing a aggregation of establishment into the Apple rumors (or they undergo something we don’t).

Google, which was at modify money for the terminal round, has fallen to 5-to-2 ratio in the newborn round. Microsoft has jumped from 10-to-1 ratio to 5-to-1. And ostensibly the bookies conceive that someone is feat to acquire Twitter soon, because the ratio for ‘no acquisition’ hit absent from 2.5-to-1 to 4-to-1.

Here’s the flooded itemize of intitial odds. Note that these module modify over time, so today strength be your quantity to move on this if you hit some exclusive info.

Apple +200 ? (2-to-1)
Google +250 ? (5-to-2)
Microsoft +500 – ( 5-to-1)
Time-Warner +800 ? (8-to-1)
Yahoo +1500 – (15-to-1)
Field +600 – (6-to-1)
No Sale +400 (4-to-1)

Betting on start acquisitions is modify enough, but the BetOnline aggroup is doing something modify more awesome. They’re currently rise Mount Everest, where they’re feat to locate the prototypal online look to be condemned from the maximal saucer on Earth. They’re most half artefact to the top, with plans to attain it to the meeting in the ordinal half of this month. Wow.

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