peHUB Second Opinion 12.17

Did Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom distort the truth to expedite the Facebook takeover?

Thirteen secret rock stars of Silicon Valley.

Hopes for a fiscal cliff compromise rise as Obama, Boehner meet.

A Canadian inventor who wants to harness man-made tornadoes to produce power gets a $300,000 grant from Peter Thiel.

Ciscy has hired Barclays to find a buyer for Linksys.

Morgan Stanley was fined $5 mln for its handling of the Facebook IPO.

Unbelievable. Google is offering a journalism fellowship.

A Hollywood hacker is sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Surprise! Gas falls to below $4 a gallon in all 50 states for the first time in 2012.

Women earn more than men in these four countries.

HTC has scrapped plans to produce a large-screen smartphone using Microsoft’s operating system.

So confusing. A top Dell exec did warn Microsoft’s Ballmer to not to call its new tablet operating system “Windows RT”

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