The once Silicon Valley app darling just sold itself to some Korean company called Daum Kakao.
But Gordon Brown wouldn't like to see Labour Budget history repeating itself with Darling's Budget.
Even the state oil company from Belarus — itself no darling of the West — has reportedly been hatching a deal.
For some the only surprise is that Nokia itself, former darling of the mobile industry, is still alive.
On the one hand, it has been a darling of academia, lending itself to exegesis as few other novels do.
The mainstream art world, where African-American and Latino faces are conspicuously absent from the latest list of critical darlings, should do itself a favor and listen up.
Customers ignored reassurances from the chancellor, Alistair Darling, the British Bankers Association and Northern Rock itself that funds were safe.
But now the fund company itself has become a darling of investors of a different persuasion -- those who scour the landscape for battered stocks selling at bargain prices.
The City has only itself to blame if Alistair Darling makes a windfall tax on bank bonuses the centrepiece of Wednesday's pre-budget report (PBR).
The business-focused networking site of record, LinkedIn, rode a wave of growth through 2012, turning itself into a Wall Street darling in the process.
Potami, a party positioning itself as the troika's reformist darling, also failed to rally the smaller "Yes" vote.
