okay okay okay, I'm leaning towards Techcrunch being trolled here, well I seriously hope that's the case, otherwise does anyone have a good idea that includes social, saving money and local divisions? If so, I've got some mediocre CSS skills and $10 to buy a domain with...

the ONLY way this can be true is if they've built an incredible backend that groupon want to use to expand and aren't interested in doing it themselves.