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Pre-Marketing: Airbnb worth $1 billion?

* Airbnb, a marketplace for home-sharing, is raising more than $100 million at a $1 billion valuation

* Paul Farrell: RIP Reaganomics revolution (1981-2011)

* Izabella Kaminska: Goldman Sachs makes an expensive typo

* Keith Cochran: The essential AC/DC songlist for entrepreneurial survival

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London opens strongEuropean shares climb on Greek bailout talk and the Nikkei gains 2%.

* Peak deficit? Engineering the public-to-private handoff

* Divya Guha: VCs see sunshine in Indian solar sector, but too few deals

* Peter Thiel is the latest to slam LinkedIn’s bankers for underpricing its IPO…

* … On the other hand, BlackRock is concerned that banks are actually overpricing IPOs

* An option to buy? David Einhorn has “a path to majority ownership” of the NY Mets

* Want to really hurt Gadhafi? Force him to invest even more of Libya’s fortunes with Goldman Sachs

* Mistaken identity: Browser company Opera reprints emails intended for Oprah (and replies to them)

* Why people hate lawyers (Part XXVI): NYSE Group claims all photos of its trading floor are trademarked