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Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri, the Speaker of the parliament, was expected to float into power simply because he had been designated.

Groupon, the online discount business which spurned a $6bn offer from Google last year, raised $1bn in new financing in January and is expected to float this year.

The firm is at the head of a queue of as many as 15 British retailers expected to float this year with a total valuation of around £8bn.

Google, an internet search engine that was funded with $25m from Sequoia Capital, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, two of California's most venerable VC names, is expected to float in the coming months.

Said to Be Set for May  |  The social networking site Facebook is expected to float shares in the third week of May, meaning the company would have to file documents within the next month, AllThingsD reports, citing many unidentified people.

The firm said it was expecting to float the retailer in the autumn.

The UK business is eventually expected to be floated on the London stock exchange, an idea first mooted in 2010 but subject to delay by ongoing regulatory change.

Spansion is also leading the industry with MirrorBit, a charge-trapping technology, that represents a growing share of the Flash memory market and is expected to replace floating gate technology in the future.

One of the proposals expected to be floated at the meeting is to change the name to Italian American Day, taking the spotlight off Columbus and other European explorers.

Poundland is expected to confirm plans to float on the London stock market this week.