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Pre-Marketing: Tim Cook talks

* Tim Cook memo to employees: “Apple is not going to change”

* Big deal: Bloomberg pays $990 million to beef up its legal research offerings

* Day 1: Warren Buffett earns $1.3 billion on his Bank of America bailout investment

* Morning Call: U.S. futures point higher, London falls earlyEuropean shares extend losses and the Nikkei climbs.

* Ron Paul: Investing genius?

* M&A regrets: Google begins to shut down Slide

* Cullen Roche: Is gold nearing a death wobble?

* Paul Krugman: Ben Bernanke’s Perry problem

* Jon Hilsenrath: Today is Bernanke’s chance to talk fiscal, not monetary, policy

* Michael Schuman: Six lessons Japan could teach the West

* Comstock: Private debt remains a bigger problem than public debt

* From outside in: Apple hacker “Comex” takes internship at… Apple

* Sanctions: J.P. Morgan pays $88.3 million fine for breaking embargoes with Cuba, Iran and Sudan

* FCC commissioner Robert McDowell: “The Internet is the greatest deregulatory success story of all time”