Pre-Marketing: Private equity’s next gun battle

* Battle for Outdoor Channel: Gun debate colors buyout bid

* Derek Thompson: Corporate profits are eating the economy

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, European shares climb and the Nikkei rises.

* Lucy Marcus: The boardroom mystique

* Financial crisis casualty: The corporate palace

* Philip Elmer-DeWitt: The rise and fall of Andy Zaky

* Acquisition back-story: How Twitter came to Boston

* Andrew Mason’s farewell letter: The RapGenius annotated version

* PEW: Twitter reactions often at odds with actual public opinion

* Say what? NASDAQ executing some trades at a loss

* Blackberry 10 roll-out: Death by a thousand paper cuts

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* Deficit debate: Paul Krugman vs. Joe Scarborough

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