* Wikileaks: Gadhafi turned down a chance to invest with Madoff

* Matthew Ingram: Why most startup acquisitions fail, and always will

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, London opens soft, European shares keep sliding and the Nikkei sheds 1.2%.

* Felix Salmon: Why do we want stocks to go up?

* Wall Street remembers pioneering M&A lawyer Joseph Flom

* Derek Thompson: The next tech revolution is for senior citizens

* Abby Philip: Is small business being short-changed on Obama’s jobs panel?

* Larry Cheng: If it wants to, Groupon could call every U.S. business by year-end

* Google’s Don Dodge: Q&A site StackOverflow’s valuation “gave me a heart attack”

* Departing Treasury Dep’t restructuring chief James Millstein: “I worked my my out of a job.”

* James Hamilton: Don’t worry about oil price impact on U.S. GDP, until it hits $130 per barrel

* Hsiang-Ching Tseng: China is beginning to regulate its private equity and venture capital markets