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"Groupon CEO Andrew Mason doesn\u2019t want to talk about his company potentially being acquired, or whether he will continue to be in charge of it.\nDuring an interview Tuesday at the Mobile-Loco conference in San Francisco, Mason repeatedly refused to answer questions about a recent rumor that Groupon might be acquired by Google.\n\u201CWe never have and never will comment on unsubstantiated rumors in the press, so there\u2019s nothing we can say about that,\u201D Mason said when asked whether Google was interested in possibly acquiring the company.\n\u201CWe\u2019re really focused on trying to build a great company, we\u2019re really not focused on that,\" Mason said, when asked if we might see Groupon acquired this year by a larger company \u2014 Google or otherwise.\nMeanwhile, when asked about recent reports that Groupon's board was considering replacing him as the CEO of the company, Mason stated that he has already said all he has to say about it.\nIn a previous statement about his future at the company Mason said, \u201C If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.\" \nGroupon's stock has plummeted since the company went public at $20 a share a year ago. The company's stock fell below $3 a share for the first time at the beginning of November. It has ticked up slightly in recent weeks and is currently trading around $4.40 a share.\nOn Tuesday, Mason spoke of Groupon as a stock that would grow over time, not one that\u2019s going to jump up overnight. Groupon is thinking long term, and he wants the company's investors to think of it as a long-term investment.\nMason feels that over time Groupon\u2019s strategy will be a successful one.\n\u201CYears from now, whether its Groupon doing it or not, how you buy things is going to be transformed, \u201C Mason said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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