* Colleen Taylor: Why HP is betting the farm on Autonomy
* Matt Taibbi: Is the SEC covering up Wall Street crimes?
* Steven Davidoff: Behind Google’s huge breakup fee with Motorola Mobility
* Morning Call: U.S. futures point to more pain, London falls below 5k, Europe hits 2-year low, gold rallies to another record and the Nikkei sheds 2.5%.
* Wade Roush goes in-depth on SecondMarket
* Pink slip alert: Bank of America to cut 3,500 jobs
* Jure Klepic: 12 most wrong things to do on LinkedIn
* College Humor: Robert Reich explains America’s credit downgrade
* Nick Bilton: Does Ashton Kutcher have a financial disclosure problem?
* Bain & Co: PE fund limited partners aren’t getting the better terms they expected
* Ezra Klein: How Hitler and FDR actually ended the Great Depression
* Customer service win: Man tweets for steak from airplane. Morton’s surprises him at airport.
* Tweet of the Day: @cdixon The only thing in the market that seems to be going up is the right to sue other companies over obvious software inventions.
* Tweet of the Day II: @ComfortablySmug: Happy 50th birthday, Tim Geithner. I don’t know if the markets can handle any more of this administration’s 50th b-days
* Quote of the Day: Lloyd Blankfein to Steve Schwarzman, at Saturday night’s 60th b-day blowout for Leon Black: “Your 60th got us into the financial crisis. Let’s hope this party gets us out of it.”
* Pageview bait: Kim Kardashian is getting married today. Really wanted to get the word “Kardashian” in this post, and it’s semi-relevant because it will happen at the estate of venture capitalist Frank Caufield. Again, that’s Kardashian with a K.