{"id":2151,"date":"2010-12-14T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2010-12-14T19:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T19:48:03","slug":"googles-groupon-bid-rejected-big-mistake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/googles-groupon-bid-rejected-big-mistake\/","title":{"rendered":"“Google’s Groupon Bid Rejected” BIG mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\" Groupon is getting way ahead of themselves and I think their rejection of Google’s bid is a Big mistake. My 2011 prediction\u2026 Google buys Twitter!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Richard Bashara<\/a>\u00a0says: Ted I\u2019m going to agree with a \u201cbut,\u201d look at Facebook. Zuck\u2019s had how many chances to sell FB? You can\u2019t deny that Groupon has set a trend. Perhaps trying to stay on top of the wave could pay off.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

And if Google doesn\u2019t buy Twitter, I\u2019d be quite surprised. Who knows, maybe Twitter will try to stay independent though. As a publishing tool, it\u2019s clearly becoming more active than Digg or Reddit.<\/p>\n

Ted Rubin<\/a>\u00a0replies: Twitter is incredibly concerned, as they should be, about how to sustain and monetize what they have. Google is incredibly worried about Facebook and how to penetrate and participate in Social Media\/Marketing. Solves a critical problem for both.<\/p>\n

As far as comparing Groupon to Facebook, I think the projectory of their growth is where it ends. Facebook competitors have many more barriers to entry than competitors to Groupon, and they control the hearts and minds of their members. Groupon exists only as long as they can provide such unsustainable discounts. With Google\u2026 the value of their local search and local relationships\/workforce came in to play and made them much more valuable than as a stand-alone. IMHO<\/p>\n

Ted Rubin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Groupon is getting way ahead of themselves and I think their rejection of Google’s bid is a Big mistake. My 2011 prediction\u2026 Google buys Twitter! Richard Bashara\u00a0says: Ted I\u2019m going to agree with a \u201cbut,\u201d look at Facebook. Zuck\u2019s had how many chances to sell FB? You can\u2019t deny that Groupon has set a trend. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,7],"tags":[885,387,393,883,778,886,884,566,30,244],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-tedrubin","tag-885","tag-digg","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-groupon","tag-predictions","tag-reddit","tag-social-marketing","tag-social-media","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2159,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/2159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}