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Among Thursday's best reads for investors from around the Web: Business lessons from the Beatles, Cody Willard's latest stock picks and the newest billionaire.

In the biggest Blogwatch ever, some of day's top stories for investors, including how the Beatles on iTunes could have huge significance for the stock market; why insider trading might be difficult to prosecute; and the best IPOs of 2010.

Handwritten lyrics scribbled by John Lennon on the back of a phone bill are expected to sell for 350, 000 pounds ($553,000) at auction. Lennon scrawled some lyrics for "I'm Only Sleeping" on the back of a letter demanding overdue payment for his radiophone, an early car phone, The Guardian...

Just one week ago, Apple announced a deal to sell Beatles's music on iTunes. Since then, the company has already sold 2 million Beatles songs and 450,000 full albums. Which song and album has proven most popular so far?

Among Friday's top online stories fro investors: Why stocks should do well for the rest of 2010; lessons to be learned from the long and winding battle between Apple and the Beatles; and more good news in the recent jobs data.

After decades of topping the musical charts, The Beatles will finally top the one list that the Fab Four haven't been able to crack, the iTunes Top Charts. Apple, the computer company not the record label, announced this morning that The Beatles are finally available in iTunes as a digital...

The consumer technology giant brags that its iTunes announcement later today will be unforgettable. But the news likely won't be too memorable for investors, even if it turns out to be a Beatles deal, predicts one analyst.

EMI Group, owner of the rights to songs by bands including the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple, may attract takeover bids as pressure mounts for the company to sell assets. Warner Music Group and BMG Rights have both previously expressed an interest in buying EMI's publishing assets,...

How can you tell that smartphones aren't just for tech geeks and corporate types tethered to their email anymore? When Oprah Winfrey gives Motorola Defys to her whole studio audience, and Wal-Mart says it's launching its own mobile service, you have to say the devices have gone mainstream.

Bob Dylan's label is releasing 47 demos recorded by the singer between 1962 and 1964, just in time for holiday sales. Columbia Records will release "The Bootleg Series Volume 9 -- The Witmark Demos" on Oct. 19, along with new mono mixes of Dylan's first eight albums in the boxed set, "Bob Dylan -...