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Just a few short months ago, Google offered approximately 6 billion dollars in a buy-out offer for the deal-of-the-day online coupon giant Groupon. Groupon declined the unprecedented offer and stated that they would be conducting an IPO soon afterwards. Groupon stated that they could raise as much as $1 billion in the IPO, which could […]

Since the first rumoured whisperings of a buyout offer from Google to purchase the “Fastest Growing Company in History” (http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0830/entrepreneurs-groupon-facebook-twitter-next-web-phenom.html), the web has been abuzz with speculations as to how much Google would offer, what this would do for Google, and what it will do to Groupon. The deal has had as many twists and […]

Hopefully they’ll come up with a better name than that … Ask around the techie water-cooler what the hot topic of the day is and you will hear about the apparently imminent move by Google to acquire the online mass coupon vendor, Groupon. The deal could be worth a staggering $5-6 billion USD and could […]