Tuesday's Blog Watch

08/14/07 - 06:34 AM EDT

James Altucher

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

Jim Cramer answers questions about Ciena (CIEN Quote - Cramer on CIEN - Stock Picks), Cisco (CSCO Quote - Cramer on CSCO - Stock Picks), EMC (EMC Quote - Cramer on EMC - Stock Picks) and more.


Hilary Kramer has packed up all her stuff and put it in a Public Storage (PSA Quote - Cramer on PSA - Stock Picks) facility.


System Trades of the Day today includes trades triggering this morning on Applied Materials (AMAT Quote - Cramer on AMAT - Stock Picks), Cisco and more.


Information Arbitrage has developed the ultimate trading/hedge fund strategy: the George Costanza technique for contrarian investing.


Unusual stocks of the day: stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday, and stocks with unusual option activity. These are all potential breakout plays.


Listen up: Google (GOOG Quote - Cramer on GOOG - Stock Picks) is more than just a search engine, and don't ever forget it.


Everyone I know is having a kid right now. Here are the top stocks to pay a baby boom.


Quant Investor has an options strategy for playing General Electric (GE Quote - Cramer on GE - Stock Picks).


Stock Market Bites has more on the fever that gripped EMC shareholders yesterday in anticipation of the VMware IPO today.


Sramana Mitra sheds some light on what's going on with former Internet Review pick InfoSpace (INSP Quote - Cramer on INSP - Stock Picks).


Stock Market Beat provides a nice analysis on the latest retail sales numbers.


Whoa! I've been dying for United Online (UNTD Quote - Cramer on UNTD - Stock Picks) to spin off Classmates.com, and now it's finally happening. This is a gem.


AOL (TWX Quote - Cramer on TWX - Stock Picks), IAC/InterActive (IACI Quote - Cramer on IACI - Stock Picks), Yahoo! (YHOO Quote - Cramer on YHOO - Stock Picks), etc. have all been on a Web 2.0 buying spree. Here's the lowdown on who picked up what.


Financial Puzzle has the fifth "c" in diamond shopping, at least when shopping for diamond stocks.


Well, if The Wall Street Journal can have a lover, why can't Gannett (GCI Quote - Cramer on GCI - Stock Picks)?


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 president of Stockpickr LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of TheStreet.com and part of its network of Web properties, and a managing partner at Formula Capital, an alternative asset management firm that runs a fund of hedge funds. He is also a weekly columnist for The Financial Times and the author of Trade Like a Hedge Fund, Trade Like Warren Buffett and SuperCa$h. 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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