SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc held discussions in recent months about possibly investing hundreds of millions of dollars in Twitter to gain a social networking presence, the New York Times on Friday, cited people briefed on the matter as saying. The iPhone and iPad maker, which has never delved deeply into a social media space dominated by Facebook Inc , at one point considered an investment that would have valued the microblogging service at $10 billion but the two were not in negotiations now, the newspaper reported. Apple declined comment. ...



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