SO do you think Google's Groupon acquisition rumors are true?
 

$2,500,000,000? Another big buy if it's true.

oh i hope so can't wait.

google needs acquisitions like groupon that make money instead of driving around cars and taking pictures.

Some are speculating that it's another move in the fight against Facebook. In particular, the new FB 'Deals' feature. I don't think Google's primary concern at the moment is making more money. Obviously that will always be a concern, but it makes sense that they want to get into a new competitive area. Could just be coincidence that this acquisition competes with a Facebook project, but it does seems as though the two are fighting inn a bit of a power struggle right now. 1 in 4 daily American pages requests right now is for Facebook. They've topped the list as the most visited site online. This could easily be more of an intended stab at Facebook, than it is an intended revenue stream, though it will serve as both.

Looks more like 5.5-6b range!! Crazy numbers there!

groupon makes huge money, they only pay on average 30% to the businesses off the already low prices.

Looks like they are set to take in 500 million this year :upsidedow

I don't know why they are so worried about facebook, soon facebook will have too much crap trying to be a full service like yahoo and will shoot itself in the foot.

Then another service will come along that is better and eventually will be corrupted as well.

I think groupon is the fastest growing startup of all time in terms of making revenue right out the gate.

google = geocities.