RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: NPR's business news starts with Google's billion-dollar discount deal.</s>RENEE MONTAGNE, Host: In another news item about Google, European officials have launched a formal antitrust investigation. The EU is looking into whether the Internet company has abused its dominant market position in online searches.
Google may soon pay up to $6 billion for the Internet coupon company Groupon, according to The New York Times. Groupon is the two-year-old Chicago company that sends daily discount offers to peoples' email accounts, tailored to their locations.