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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.

Over the last five years, Facebook employees have met with members of Congress and walked them through ways to best to use the Web site.

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

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.

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

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 Internet was supposed to make us smarter shoppers. So why should we still listen to the signals that brands send us?

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

After initially rising 11 percent on its first day, the stock closed at $38.23, just above its offering price, in heavy trading.

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.

Scientists said a tiny brain implant allowed two people who are virtually paralyzed below the neck to manipulate a robotic arm.

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.

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.

Two apps, FBI Child ID and Footprints, are worth downloading for any parent — even those who can’t imagine ever losing their children.

Twitter said it would allow users to opt out of cookies that collect personal information used for advertising.

Agilent Technologies, a maker of scientific instruments, has agreed to buy Dako, a Danish cancer diagnostics company, for $2.2 billion.

Suggestions for improving the audio quality of Skype calls.

The term "4G" or "fourth generation," which has become a popular advertising and marketing feature, means something different to many telecommunications engineers.

Apple scored a narrow victory against HTC in a patent lawsuit in December over the technology used in the devices.

When it comes to the underlying technology providers that matter for mobile app developers, there's Google and Apple, with Microsoft as an also-ran. But as television begins to resemble the mobile business, Microsoft is in the lead with the Xbox, according to a new report out Wednesday from Forrester Research.

"George Harrison: Living in the Material World," the new e-book by Olivia Harrison, has generated good reviews from iTunes users, and the content is excellent. Whether it's worth downloading, though, depends on your tolerance for tiny text.

Alisher B. Usmanov’s investments in the social media giant could be worth at least $6 billion when the company goes public.

China is having the final word on Google’s biggest and perhaps most strategic deal to date — its proposed $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility, the American handset maker and communications company.

The video game Max Payne 3 follows the former cop in his job as a bodyguard in Brazil.

The company’s audit committee said Richard Schulze, also the chain’s founder, failed to report an inappropriate relationship between the former chief executive and an employee.

The company’s revenue surpassed Wall Street’s expectations and Groupon’s stock rose nearly 18 percent in after-hours trading.