$5.3B Buys Quite a Few Discounted Microderm Abrasion Treatments

It appears as though Google is prepared to pay in the neighborhood of $5.3B for Groupon. 

A quick summary of what public companies Google could buy with $5.3B, assuming they'd pay a 30% premium over market cap (rough valuation.. market cap listed next to company name below) :

• AOL - $2.6B
• Interactive Corp 0 $2.8B
• AMD (almost) - $4.9B
• Garmin (almost) - $5.6B
• Concur Technologies - $2.7B
• Blackboard - $1.4B

Or... 5,000,000 microderm abrasion treatments at 50% off.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/29/new-groupon-deal-reports-allthingsd-5-3b/