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Bubblicious: Groupon's Value Increases $10 Billion for No Reason by Erik Sass

Okay, this settles it: we are in the midst of a social media bubble, and it is getting bigger at an alarming rate. Worse, it is about to ascend to the next stage of insanity -- and become a Bonafide Bubble -- as companies go public and everyone is invited to get rich quickly and effortlessly by doing the same thing as all the other people trying to get rich quickly and effortlessly. What is all this doom and gloom based on? Since December the estimated value of Groupon, the social deal juggernaut with plans to go public in the ...Read the whole story

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