* Feds: Mafia looted publicly-traded Texan mortgage company

* Big deal: KKR in talks to buy oil & gas company Samson for up to $10 billion

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London rises early, European shares keep falling (thanks Greece!) and the Nikkei sheds 2%.

* Phin Barnes: The plague of tech clones is coming

* Beyond Facebook: The era of social business has arrived

* Caitlin Curran: How Occupy Wall St. cost me my job

* Ars Technica: Hey Siri, how much data do you gobble up each month?

* Alexis Madrigal: 2,000 mile drive through the South’s startup scene

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* Feet up or down: The moment Condi thought she and Prez Bush had been poisoned

* Supercommittee savior? Erskine Bowles proposes a $2.6 billion compromise plan

* Tweet of the Day: @ryanavent: Man, Twitter today is all MF this and MF that. Language!