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Pre-Marketing: Wall St. boosts home prices

* Pink slip-ville: Zynga lays off 18% of staff

* More: Closes OMGPOP, 1 year after $180 million buy

* Blackstone bump? Wall St. behind home price rise

* Insider trading crackdown led to… more insider trading

* Morning Call: U.S. futures down, Europe rebounds and Japan climbs

* Exit: CalPERS selling 4% stake in Carlyle Group

* Stoll: Frank Lautenberg’s lesser-known biz legacy

* Map of the day: Dunkin’ Donuts vs. Starbucks

* Competitive: Solar energy costs keep dropping

* Wall Street hates Facebook: But no one knows why

* They’re back: Lululemon yoga pants pass the “bend over” test

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* Hyperbole of the day: “The bike lobby is an all-powerful enterprise.”

* Garrett Epps: Does a state like Colorado have the right to self-destruct?

* Curt Woodard: How EMC and Carbonite beat a Myhrvold-tied patent troll