Jose Antonio Vargas (who shared a Pulitzer Prize as a reporter at the Washington Post) covered technology for the Huffington Post and penned a widely-read profile of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg for the New Yorker.

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The biggest beneficiary of the offering will be its high profile founder and chief executive Mark Pincus, who was revealed to own 112 million shares.

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The presiding officer said the actor's involvement was a mark of the increasing profile of both the event and the Scottish Parliament itself.

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