Fool Video: Microsoft's Hostility, Greenspan's Getaway, Akamai's Upside, and 5 Hot IPOs

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Will Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) stop playing nice? Is Akamai (Nasdaq: AKAM) the Rodney Dangerfield of Wall Street? Is Alan Greenspan to blame for Ben Bernanke's bad fortune? And can recent red-hot IPOs such as Visa (NYSE: V), Intrepid Potash (NYSE: IPI), and Cardionet (Nasdaq: BEAT) produce Google-like (Nasdaq: GOOG) returns going forward? In this installment of "Fool Video," Online Managing Editor LouAnn DiCosmo talks about some stories on the Fool radar.

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