Any details about the deal? Cash or stock? Vesting? Last year the price of the Groupon stock dropped a lot, now it appears to be stable, but ...<p><a href="http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/grpn/interactive-chart?timeframe=1y&charttype=line" rel="nofollow">http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/grpn/interactive-chart?timefram...</a>
Congrats to the team as Glassmap, and good on Groupon for going to get some talent from outside.<p>But I always hate when an announcement like this ends with "... and our service will be discontinued as of..." which means Groupon wasn't interested in the business so much as the talent.
<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/groupon-acquires-realtime-location-aware-service-glassmap-to-help-you-find-deals/" rel="nofollow">http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/groupon-acquires-realtime-l...</a><p>"No word on what the purchase price was, but this sounds like one of those fancy acquisition/hires that we talk about all of the time, mostly surrounding Facebook and Google. Is Groupon about to get more hip? We’ll find out."