peHUB First Read

* Foxes guarding the henhouse? Authorities probe insider trading at the SEC. * Super LP Chris Douvos on the good and the bad from annual meeting season. * Morning Call: U.S. futures are up, London drops early, European shares extend gains, the Nikkei rises 1.9% and Hong Kong rises. * GreenFuel Technologies shuts down, after $30 million in VC funding and an interim CEO stint by Bob Metcalfe. * Windjammer Capital sues portfolio company Brown Publishing, alleging that "the family-controlled Ohio chain shifted its newspapers and other assets to shell companies and was preparing a bankruptcy filing -- all with the aim of keeping the firm from collecting at least $9 million under a stock warrant agreement." * Top 10 cleantech acquisition targets * Late last year, Y Combinator's Paul Graham suggested that Web entrepreneurs no longer needed venture capitalists. Professor Robert Hendershott agrees.