Friday's Daily Blog Watch

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

A Stockpickr member is keeping track of all of Gene Marcial's picks from Business Week this year.

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Big Ben presents three potential buyout targets in the discount brokerage sector.

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Stockpickr's System Trades of the Day has eight trades triggering this morning, including CDC (CHINA Quote) and CMGI (CMGI Quote).

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DealBreaker presents an interesting contrarian view of investing in Citigroup (C Quote).

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Here's excellent analysis of the real issues in the battle between Google (GOOG Quote) and Yahoo! (YHOO Quote). It may be not about search, but about banner ads.

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Yaser Anwar writes about the trading secrets of George Soros.

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Toilet king American Standard (ASD Quote) is on the list of stocks that rose yesterday on unusual volume.

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Notable Calls gives the rundown of all the analysts' reactions to eBay (EBAY Quote).

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But Financial Skeptic is, of course, skeptical of eBay's numbers.

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Benchmark venture capitalist Michael Eisenberg finds a help-wanted ad in an ... er ...interesting place.

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Sufiy believes Silver Wheaton (SLW Quote) is the perfect hedge against the dollar.

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Zacks.com has an excellent review of the top gaming stocks, including Electronic Arts (ERTS Quote) and Activision (ATVI Quote).

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Stock screen of the day: small-cap stocks with growth of 25% per year for the past 5 years and P/E over earnings growth less than 1.

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It's the end of a fascinating experiment: Canned Meat Spam kept track of every stock recommended by spam email. The losses are stunning.

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Social Network of the day (hat tip to Paul Kedrosky): Who Is Sick?

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