The Best of Both: Scoops and Analysis

With

TheStreet.com's

new design, it's more apparent that

Deion Sanders

has nothing on us. The breadth and tightness of our coverage is Primetime.

With everything that's happening during market hours, readers can't read everything, so here's a look at a collection of our best.

Scoops

We got more than a truckload of

Raisin Bran

.

George Mannes and Suzanne Galante, our two horticulturalists covering tulips, broke the news that

Yahoo!

(YHOO)

was in talks to acquire

GeoCities

(GCTY)

.

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Alex Berenson, perhaps the only media reporter in the country who doesn't own a TV, came up with a scoop of his own this week:

Disney, Chancellor Media Discuss a Linkup

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/media/688579.html

Jesse Eisinger,

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drug reporter, came up with the first look at the data on the launch of

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arthritis drug:

A Celebrated Start For Monsanto's Celebrex

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/biotech/687587.html

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Analysis

When

TSC

reporters aren't breaking news, they're providing thoughtful analysis.

Is being first best or being best best? That's the question that George Mannes asked in his piece on the advantage of being first on the Internet:

First-Mover Advantage: What's It Really Worth?

http://www.thestreet.com/tech/internet/682198.html

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Retail reporter Suzanne Kapner wondered if the strong

North Face

(TNFI)

brand is heading south:

Retailer Risks Cutting Off Nose to Spite Its North Face

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/retail/688970.html

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Marcy Burstiner showed that despite protesters,

Intel

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will benefit from selling trackable chips:

Despite Boycott, Trackable Chips Are Good for Intel

http://www.thestreet.com/tech/semis/686295

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Eric Moskowitz took a look at the new way companies are trying to sell their stock:

The Evolving Art of Interpreting Insider Buying

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/retail/688146.html

A big biotech deal warranted some thoughts on the deal's wider implications:

Agouron Deal Signals Big Pharma Is Warming to Biotech

http://www.thestreet.com/stocks/biotech/689484

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The air is so thin in Wyoming, it's a wonder that economics correspondent James Padinha can think at all. But he proved thoughtful as he weighed in on Alan Greenspan's comments on Net Lotto:

On Internet "Investing"

http://www.thestreet.com/comment/economics/694561.html

.

Nick Watson's piece on a weakening Rupert Murdoch should keep Fleet Streeters warm on winter nights:

Murdoch's U.K. Cable Stranglehold Loosens"

http://www.thestreet.com/int/euromarkets/694961.html

.

Commentator Lewis Perdue took a shot at gun sales on the Internet with this piece:

Excite and eBay: Flirting With Disaster?

http://www.thestreet.com/comment/cfeatures/681789.html