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Pre-Marketing: Best Buy battleplan

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Dan Primack
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August 22, 2012, 11:13 AM ET

Yup, deep-fried bagels (or fragels)

* Best Buy battle: Dick Schulze has a new plan

* Lockup expiration fears: Yelp shares begin to sink

* Intellectual Ventures: Inside tech’s most hated firm

* Silver linings: How Todd Akin made money for Twitter

* Odd couple: White House worked with Carlyle Group to save refinery

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point lower, European shares retreat and the Nikkei falls.

* Mike Oxley: My one big SOX regret

* Tom Tunguz: The freemium gameplan

* Chart of the day: “There Will Be Blood”

* Romney camp: Some support for keeping Bernanke

* Guns ‘r Us: Where “there’s no such thing as an assault rifle”

* Get Term Sheet: Sign up for our daily email on deals & deal-makers

 

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