Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

That’s the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook’s 26 — or Google’s 8.7. And Twitter’s growth may…

Is Twitter Worth $3.7 Billion? Not in the Real World

That’s the value a $200 million venture investment led by Kleiner Perkins this week implies. But that means Twitter would have a price-to-sales ratio of 840 compared to Facebook’s 26 — or Google’s 8.7. And Twitter’s growth may…

Initial Jobless Claims Jump 20,000 to 457,000

In another setback on employment, initial jobless claims jumped a larger than anticipated 20,000 to 457,000, the Labor Department announced Thursday. Economists had predicted initial jobless claims would total 443,000.
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