Twitter keeps saying it will go public when it is ready. But acquisitions, strategic hires, product changes, and behind-the-scenes maneuvering over the past year make clear that the company will be ready sooner rather than later.
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Twitter's IPO, slowly but surely, is coming.
It's still not clear when — a recent report by Bloomberg says it could come as soon as the end of the year — but the time for Twitter to make its public market debut is imminent.
How do we know? Just look at these 10 recent moves, which basically double as a preparing-to-go-public cheat sheet.
Hiring Nathan Hubbard
Twitter last week appointed its first "head of commerce," former Ticketmaster executive Nathan Hubbard. His role will be working with merchants to help them better sell products through Twitter.
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