MARY LOUISE KELLY, Host: NPR's business news starts with the latest Internet buzz.</s>MARY LOUISE KELLY, Host: Groupon is going public. Yesterday, the group coupon advertiser filed paperwork for an initial public offering. Groupon is actually losing money, but it hopes investors will ignore that and pay hundreds of millions of dollars for its shares. If that happens, it'll feed talk of a new tech bubble. The networking site LinkedIn just went public and its share price doubled on the first day of trading.
The group coupon advertiser filed paperwork for an initial public offering Thursday. Groupon is actually losing money, but it hopes investors will ignore that and pay hundreds of millions of dollars for its shares.