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Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

09/07/06 - 08:13 AM EDT

James Altucher

Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.


When Sumner Redstone fired Tom Freston at Viacom VIA, part of his reasoning was that Freston wasn't moving fast enough in the digital arena.

Blogging Stocks has some interesting speculation that Viacom and Yahoo! YHOO could merge and be serious competition for Time Warner TWX.


13D Tracker outlines all of Dan Loeb's recent requests to Nabi NABI from his 13D filing.


Monty's Bluff looks at Coke's KO new caffeinated drink, Blak.


I believe YouTube will ultimately be a great company. But Dead 2.0 does a good job disagreeing, and I believe analysis is interesting.


Capital Spectator speculates we could be in a third-quarter rebound in the economy.


Can Ford F go private?


Great survey from ContraHour of the water utility stocks.


Sort of funny (or sad) -- a social network for BlackBerry users.


Ben Stein wants to outlaw management buyouts. Dealbreaker summarizes the heated debate.


Tech Crunch wonders if eBay EBAY is the investment bank of Web 2.0. This is really a fascinating concept, and it's entirely possible that within the year we can see Dutch-style auctions for offerings on eBay.


Quant Investor puts a new spin on Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula.


Terry Tate, office linebacker.




At the time of publication, Altucher and/or his fund had no positions in any of the stocks mentioned, although positions may change at any time.

James Altucher is a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs several quantitative-based hedge funds as well as a fund of hedge funds. He is also the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund and Trade Like Warren Buffett. Under no circumstances does the information in this column represent a recommendation to buy or sell stocks. Altucher appreciates your feedback; click here to send him an email.

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