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Pre-Marketing: Olympic day jobs

* Off the track: What 36 Olympians do for their day jobs

* Wenzhe Zhou: How big data is changing everyday business

* Calamity contingency: U.S. banks told to make disaster plans

* Meghan Casserly: What happens to Google employees when they die

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

* Antoine Gara: Private equity refocuses on U.S.

* Shocker: The best Internet stock of 2012 is… AOL!

* Onion brilliance: Lower class grateful it’s not part of middle class

* Scam alert: Marc Andreessen is not launching a China fund

* Erskine Bowles: Romney’s tax plan won’t cut the deficit

* S&P: How much will Dodd-Frank cost the largest banks?

* Mayo and Myriad: Can two patent rulings chill innovation?

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* No cash for you: Yahoo reconsiders Alibaba-related share repurchases

* Valley diversification: Tristan Walker launches program for minority engineers

* Tweet of the Day: @pkedrosky: I like how Best Buy just can’t seem to stay saved. It’s the Greece of consumer electronics.