We spend a lot of time talking about Facebook (FB 0.32%), LinkedIn (LNKD +0.00%), and Twitter when talking about social media here. But there's another platform that's even richer -- and certainly more customizable -- which is growing at a pace reminiscent of Twitter around the time Google (GOOG +1.39%) bid $10 billion for the company, and it might just make an excellent tuck-in acquisition for the search king. Find out why in the video below.
Is This Google's Next Acquisition Target?
By Tim Beyers – Nov 23, 2012 at 3:01PM
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Tim Beyers is a Senior Investment Analyst and Lead Advisor at The Motley Fool. Tim leads the signature Rule Breakers investing service and co-leads Motley Fool Supernova’s Odyssey mission, a real-money portfolio designed to help individual investors build and manage a portfolio of Rule Breaker stocks. He also serves as a portfolio lead for Cloud Disruptors and is a contributing stock analyst for the Trends team. Tim has over 20 years of professional investing experience, including 17 years as an analyst for the market-beating Rule Breakers service and three years as its lead advisor.