Pre-Marketing 11.19.10

* Matt Rosoff: Is November 2011 Armageddon for Firefox?

* Steven Davidoff: Dynegy’s unusual approach to delaying its takeover vote

* Meredith Whitney plans to launch a new credit rating agency to compete with S&P and Moody’s

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London falls early, European shares slide and the Nikkei hits a 5-month closing high.

* Shelley DuBois: Why Dell won’t go private

* Chris Dixon: The trouble with tranched VC investments

* Frank Quattrone’s free advice for IPO or M&A candidates

* Matthew Goldstein: SAC Capital pays a guy to play golf all day

* Is YouWeb the $1 billion incubator almost no one has heard of?

* Massachusetts is the state best-prepared to compete in the new economy. Sorry California…

* Tweet of the Day: @
ruthlessgravity
How long before CNBC replaces the Dow with just a ticker of $GM stock price?

* Mary Meeker’s “Internet trends” presentation from the Web 2.0 Summit:

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