Marissa Mayer on Google's Failed Groupon Bid
After incessant buzz that Google was looking to buy Groupon, word finally came that the fast-growing “deal of the day” company had turned the tech giant down. So, does that mean Google might launch its own coupon-type service instead?
“When you look at our overall suite of services, especially around our advertising, we already have some things that are like [Groupon],” said Marissa Mayer, Google VP of consumer products, in our Media Beat interview. “We have things like coupons and offer-extension ads that allow merchants to basically make offers to our users.
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