* Raised stakes: Energy Transfer ups offer for Southern Union to $5.1 billion
* Are they taunting the FTC? Google in talks to buy Hulu
* Jeff Korzenik: America’s 15th financial panic (and recovery)
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London opens strong, oil dips and the Nikkei keeps gaining.
* Bandwidth awareness: Netflix slows the stream
* Andrew Ross Sorkin: Patent bill shows Wall Street clout
* Pre-Zynga: How this year’s tech IPOs are faring
* From the S-1: Zynga reveals plans to build its own data centers
* Modesty & more: 7 personality traits of great salespeople
* Joshua Brown: Executive comp is now completely off the rails
* Shame & regret: 10 movies famous people don’t want you to see
* David Brooks: “If the Republican Party were a normal party, it would take advantage of this amazing moment. It is being offered the deal of the century: trillions of dollars in spending cuts in exchange for a few hundred million dollars of revenue increases… the mother of all no-brainers.”