peHUB Second Opinion 8.30

For geolocation startups, the “magic age [for adoption] is people born after 1981” evidently.

Whoa, billionaire investor Ron Burkle and Barnes & Noble are really taking their fight to the mat.

Cisco is reportedly sizing up Skype for a possible acquisition before its IPO.

So we’re agreed: PE firms aren’t likely to lead M&A activities any time soon.

HP agrees to cough up $55 million to settle a U.S. investigation of false billings.

Barclay’s exec calls Lehman’s books “such a mess that I don’t think they knew where they were.”

Screw viral internet videos, says Revision3 CEO.