Groupon, Pandora Met With Bankers To Discuss IPO's

According to CNBC' Kate Kelly, Groupon and Pandora have both met with investment bankers today to dsicuss potential IPO's. Groupon's

could be around $1 billion, perhaps more in the offering. Pandora has talked about an offering of a much smaller size, in the neighborhood of $100 million. Groupon spurned Google (NASDAQ:

)

as the search giant was prepared to pay $6 billion for the Chicago-based company. Groupon just

too, so it's not quite yet clear why it would raise money from venture capitals, then talk about going public so close together.