Biz Break: Twitter soars after talk of Yahoo acquisition - San Jose Mercury News

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"Twitter stock soared Tuesday after former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn suggested that the San Francisco social-networking company should buy Yahoo.

Twitter shares gained 6.5 percent to $38.76 Tuesday, easily the biggest jump in the SV150 -- the next largest percentage gain was 2.3 percent by Rocket Fuel, and no other major Silicon Valley tech company added more than 2 percent on the day. Most of Twitter's gains came in the afternoon session, after Levinsohn told CNBC that he believes Twitter should buy the core business of Yahoo."

Biz Break: Twitter soars after talk of Yahoo acquisition - San Jose Mercury News