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Thanks, but No Thanks: Did Groupon Just Pull a Facebook?

Kara Swisher in News on December 3, 2010 at 6:47 pm PT

There is a precedent for social buying site Groupon walking away from a $6 billion offer from Google, if that’s exactly what happened. Let’s call it: The Zuckerberg Gambit. That would be in reference to the famous series of no’s that that the then flip-flopped co-founder and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, gave to a series of suitors who came calling with big bags of dough to buy the social networking site.

Daily Deal Deflated: Groupon-Google Talks End

Kara Swisher in News on December 3, 2010 at 4:50 pm PT

The acquisition talks between Google and Groupon have ended. “It’s as over as these things get,” said one person close to the situation. The reasons for the collapse of the discussion are not clear at this moment, but it seems to center on the decision by the social buying site to remain independent and perhaps go for an IPO.

Would That the Real Mark Zuckerberg Talked as Much as the Facebook Movie Mark Zuckerberg

Kara Swisher in News on October 2, 2010 at 4:01 pm PT

Mark Pincus can sure talk a blue streak. Mark Cuban can easily be classified as a chatterbox, both online and off. And Marc Andreessen certainly knows how to keep up his end of the conversation. In other words, the pantheon of famous digital entrepreneurs is full of blabby Marks. But Mark Zuckerberg, not so much.

IAC's Barry Diller Speaks About How Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

Kara Swisher in News on October 7, 2008 at 9:30 am PT

Don’t miss this very good interview–does he ever give a bad one?–that IAC/InterActive Corp’s Barry Diller did with The Wall Street Journal’s Shira Ovide in today’s edition. After a bruising court battle with shareholder and cable mogul John Malone, Diller finally broke apart the Internet conglomerate six weeks ago. His reason: IAC had become too complex and its stock had suffered due to the operating confusion.