{"id":37083,"date":"2013-05-03T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=37083"},"modified":"2013-05-03T09:29:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T07:29:06","slug":"twitter-stepping-closer-to-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/37083\/twitter-stepping-closer-to-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter stepping closer to IPO?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has hired Cynthia Gaylor from Morgan Stanley to run its corporate development team, bringing in a veteran investment banker with experience in acquisitions and initial public offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter, which announced Gaylor&#8217;s hiring in a tweet on Thursday, is expected to be the next big IPO to emerge from Silicon Valley. But executives have kept quiet about the company&#8217;s precise plans.<\/p>\n<p>According to her LinkedIn profile, Gaylor led &#8220;technology execution efforts&#8221; at Morgan Stanley, including equity and debt securities issues, as managing director of mergers and acquisitions at its global technology group.<\/p>\n<p>She has also advised on high-profile deals such as Amazon.com Inc&#8217;s purchase of Zappos and Google Inc&#8217;s acquisition of AdMob.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look forward to joining and focusing on M&amp;A + strategy,&#8221; Gaylor tweeted on Thursday. &#8220;Pointed north &#8230; let the migration begin!&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Twitter hack puts spotlight on social media security\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/36587\/twitter-hack-puts-spotlight-on-social-media-security\/\"><strong>Twitter hack puts spotlight on social media security<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Twitter is the fastest growing social platform\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/36980\/twitter-is-the-fastest-growing-social-platform\/\"><strong>Twitter is the fastest growing social platform<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><a title=\"Twitter settles data issue with analytics firm\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/36657\/twitter-settles-data-issue-with-analytics-firm\/\"><strong>Twitter settles data issue with analytics firm<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hackers hit North Korea Twitter account\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/34943\/hackers-hit-north-korea-twitter-account\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hackers hit North Korea Twitter account<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has hired Cynthia Gaylor from Morgan Stanley to run its corporate development team, bringing in a veteran investment banker with experience in acquisitions and initial public offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":19398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,5748,155,93],"class_list":["post-37083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-cynthia-gaylor","tag-ipo","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37083"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37097,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37083\/revisions\/37097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}