peHUB Second Opinion 8.30

For geolocation startups, the "magic age 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."