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A faked résumé led to a victory for an activist shareholder, and an enduring mystery about Scott Thompson’s departure from Yahoo.

While disappointing new investors who were betting on fast gains, Facebook had a wide winner’s circle, creating huge paper gains for scores of early insiders, hundreds of employees and some stragglers who bought stakes recently.

Facebook’s $16 billion offering was the biggest I.P.O. that Nasdaq had ever listed. Now there are growing questions over how it was handled.

The tech giant will refocus on product development and sales, executives say, and operations in China will most likely be spared.

Unlike in the United States, where promising Internet startups can expect venture capitalists to come calling early, entrepreneurs in Europe face a shortage of financing.

Rovio, based in Finland, has said it plans a public offering next year that could value the company at $9 billion, not Facebook money but huge for Europe.

More than 40,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews will pack Citi Field to hear about the dangers of the Internet and how to use it in a religiously responsible way.

Eduardo Saverin, who left the company after two years, is assessing how best to manage the extraordinary wealth that will come his way in Facebook’s initial public offering.

At Facebook, ground zero for the nouveau tech riche in Silicon Valley, peer pressure dictates that consumption be kept on the down low.

Spotify, the online music service, is expected to raise $220 million for a value of $4 billion in the latest sky-high Internet company valuation.

If history offers any lesson, average investors may find they face steep odds if they hope to make big money in a much-hyped stock like Facebook.

The initial public offering, priced at $38 a share, values Facebook at $104 billion, putting the social networking company on par with McDonald’s, Citigroup and Amazon.com.

Pinterest, which allows users to share photographs, recipes and other media on custom “pinboards,” raised $100 million in a funding round led by the Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten.

Cloud storage, now offered by a number of companies in different price ranges, offers a substitute for physical storage, with the additional ability to synchronize across multiple devices.