As early investors decide to cash out, some consultants warn first-day bubble will burst once the cultural spectacle wears off Analysts have warned small investors to steer clear of the $100bn Facebook sale after some of the social network’s biggest shareholders ramped up the number of shares they intend...
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Queen Sofia to snub Diamond Jubilee lunch over Gibraltar row
“They didn’t discuss the reasons, only that it would be inappropriate for Queen Sofia to accept the invitation in the current circumstances,” Juan Carlos Zamora, a spokesman at Zarzuela Palace, told the Daily Telegraph. “If the government thinks a trip is ill-advised they say so, and that’s that,” he...
General Motors gives Facebook the boot ahead of $100bn share sale
Withdrawal of one of the world’s biggest advertisers days before stock market sale seen as an embarrassment by analysts General Motors, the world’s biggest car company, has unfriended Facebook just days before the social media giant is planning a stock market sale that is...
The actor who printed his life on a business card
Thomas F Wilson, who played Biff Tannen in the Back to the Future movies, has a unique way of dealing with over-curious fans The internet is awash with an image of a card that actor Thomas F Wilson purportedly carries around with him. Sick...
‘Rendition’ Libyan commander Abdel Hakim Belhadj to form his own party
Abdel Hakim Belhadj, who played a leading role in last year’s overthrow of Col Muammar Gaddafi, resigned as the head of Tripoli’s military council on Tuesday in order to launch his political platform. One of Libya’s most powerful militia leaders, Mr Belhadj said he was making his move because...