Thursday's Daily Blog Watch

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

Sigma Capital is an excellent micro-cap-focused hedge fund that I've run into from my fund of funds. It's run by Thom Waye, who posted his favorite profitable over-the-counter stocks.

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Alt Energy Stocks has found an interesting way to play cellulosic ethanol.

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Several new trades were triggered this morning in Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day, including all three software giants: Microsoft (MSFT Quote), Oracle (ORCL Quote) and BEA Systems (BEAS Quote) all trigger trades this morning in the 3x2 system.

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Mr. No DooDahs asks a very simple question: Does a perma-bear ever read its own archives?

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With Wal-Mart (WMT Quote) intending to let people download movies over the Internet, StocksandBlogs analyzes Wal-Mart's impact on Blockbuster (BBI Quote), Apple (AAPL Quote), Amazon.com (AMZN Quote) and Microsoft.

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Billionaire Mark Cuban knows what the music industry needs to do next.

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Compete gives us the most popular search terms on Google (GOOG Quote) and Yahoo! (YHOO Quote) in January.

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Health care is booming as the boomers age. Here are the top-yielding health care stocks.

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Crossing Wall Street knows the greatest secret on Wall Street: mutual savings banks.

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Is Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke starting to be the boy who cried "wolf"?

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Financial Skeptic wonders whether Nabors (NBR Quote) execs are putting their money where their mouths are or whether they are perhaps in the gray area of insider trading.

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Stockwinners.com, substituting for Hilary Kramer, likes one of my favorites: NIC (EGOV Quote).

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Equity Investment Ideas breaks down Cisco (CSCO Quote).

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The Peridot Capitalist wonders whether Kodak (EK Quote) can be released from its value trap with a few catalysts.

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Check out the original demo page of Google in 1997.

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Sometimes after a stock has fallen 99%, it finally becomes a value play. In my article today, I look at some former highfliers.