BENGALURU — Twitter shares plunged on Thursday, a day after technology website Recode reported that Alphabet’s Google and Disney would not bid for the social network and Apple was unlikely to be a suitor.The company has requested binding acquisition bids within the next two weeks, report said on Wednesday, and hopes to wrap up sale negotiations before the end of the month.Google was a likely contender for the microblogging service, Recode reported, but those familiar with the deal said the company was not moving forward with an effort to buy Twitter at this time.Twitter’s shares fell 19.2% in New York on Thursday, the most since April 2015, to $20.10, valuing the company at about $14.2bn.Salesforce.com is now left as the only potential buyer, Recode said, although the cloud-software maker has not confirmed publicly that it wants to make a bid.Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff told CNBC on Wednesday that Twitter was "an exciting product, but obviously the business has a lot of ...
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