Wednesday's Daily Blog Watch
Editor's note: Every morning, James Altucher presents the most timely, topical posts from the Web's best business blogs.
on
Nokia
(NOK) - Get Report
,
Toyota
(TM) - Get Report
, "Mad Money," and more.
Why has
Microsoft
(MSFT) - Get Report
been
?
Today's
Stockpickr System Trades of the Day
includes moves today on
Rent-A-Center
(RCII) - Get Report
and
PetSmart
(PETM)
.
I can't get all the rumors straight. Is Microsoft going for Facebook? Or
Yahoo!
(YHOO)
.
Bespoke finds the
stocks with the highest interest and lowest short interest
on the Russell 1000.
Uber-billionaire Mark Cuban is the first person
to solicit votes for
Dancing with the Stars
.
Crossing Wall Street finds
a perfect growing company
.
I would not have thought it possible
but these cupcakes (with bacon on them) look insane
. And, this is just a teaser for the upcoming Good Life version of Blog Watch.
Hilary, Hilary, Hilary,
how do you keep finding these great stocks I've never heard of
. Stop it already.
Unusual stocks of the day:
stocks that rose on unusual volume yesterday
, and stocks with
. These are all potential breakout plays.
Congratulations to my friends at Infectious Greed (Paul Kedrosky) and footnoted.org (Michelle Leder) for
this best of the Web award
from
Business Week
.
Sramana Mitra believes
Informatica
(INFA)
might be an acquisition target
.
Stock Market Beat points out that although
Adobe
(ADBE) - Get Report
is
up on its recent earnings news
, it also got cheaper.
Stockerblog, of all people,
points out the connection between chess and hip-hop
. (Full disclosure: I did some work for the Wu-Tang Clan a decade ago.)
PaidContent believes that
ValueClick
(VCLK)
.
Notable Calls notes that
Avid Technology
(AVID) - Get Report
might be having a weak quarter
.
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,
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