1. Welcome to the (tech) jungle: Cisco’s reaching up to Skype? (Daily Markets)
Merger mania is definitely back in the Tech sector. HP and Dell are still seriously locking horns over 3PAR. Intel’s (INTC) acquiring Infineon’s wireless business for about $1.4bn in cash, less than two weeks after saying it would buy McAfee. However, the more intriguing story (or rumor) is that Cisco (CSCO) has made an offer to acquire Skype before they complete their IPO, says Dian L. Chu.

2. The anti-Facebook update (BBC dot.Maggie)
A couple of months ago Facebook was up to its ears in trouble over the way it was treating users’ information and privacy. It led to a crisis meeting at the company’s California HQ. Politicians in Washington even got wind of the stramash (good Scottish word for uproar) and told the company get its act together. Of course, it wasn’t Facebook’s first tangle with privacy problems. And it probably won’t be its last.
But back in April/May it seemed there was a kind of perfect storm around the issue and four enterprising students saw their moment and grabbed the spotlight, says Maggie Shiels.

3. 3PAR would rather merge with Dell than HP (Market Watch)
Last week, Silicon Valley was riveted with another story involving the ever-newsworthy Hewlett-Packard Co. But this time, instead of boardroom sniping, spying or CEO ousting, the company is involved in a serious merger tug-of-war with rival Dell over a little-known cloud computing company, says Therese Poletti. As 3PAR’s board of directors have mulled the company’s fate, it has, of course, looked for the highest offer it can get for shareholders. So far it has embraced the higher bid from HP. But if 3PAR’s management had its druthers, it might prefer to do a deal with Dell, even if it looks like Dell might be losing out on the deal.

4. Dell: Play it Again Sam (Gartner)
OK, most of you might think this is crazy, but Dell should raise their bid for 3Par one more time. Why? Isn’t this madness? Isn’t HP already overpaying for 3Par with their latest $2bn USD offer? Yes. HP is overpaying. In fact all of the bids have been too high. As Bob Barker would say on the "Price is Right" — YOU’VE ALL OVERBID. But, as I talk to those of us in the storage world, I realized something… the "overbid" ship has already sailed. And while the bids go from crazy to incredible, there’s something subtle going on here that Dell can turn into their advantage, says Drue Reeves.

5. Sued by Oracle, Google shuns JavaOne (GigaOm)
Oracle’s decision to sue Google for patent and copyright infringement over some of the Java code in Google’s Android OS has promoted the Mountain View, Calif.-based search giant to boycott this year’s JavaOne conference, says Om Malik.