Trends &amp; Innovations - Thursday      (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - More than 5,000 people who don&#39;t have fixed addresses are sleeping at 24-hour Internet cafes across Japan. One-third of them are in their 20s, and 23% are in their 50s, a government study found. Net cafe refugees usually rely on their cell phones to arrange temporary low-paying day-hire jobs. In Tokyo, 33% of surveyed people said they lost their homes after they quit their jobs, according to Japan Times. Many said that job hunting is difficult without a fixed address.
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Investor's Business Daily - In handicapping the midterm elections, conventional wisdom and the smart money seem to have parted ways in recent weeks.
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Investor's Business Daily - Insult is about to follow injury. It's bad enough that you've had to put up with a so-so year of market performance. Now you have to brace for an expected rise in stock fund capital gain distributions.
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Investor's Business Daily - InfoSpace is a rarity in this post-dot-bomb world: an Internet company with a healthy share price and bottom line.
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Investor's Business Daily - One of the questions swirling around the global credit crisis is how it will impact private-equity deals, which ran at a record pace for much of the year.
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Plus: Verizon sales rise, led by wireless growth...Motorola shares rise after profit beats estimates...Electronics sales push Sony to profit...CNET reports deeper loss.
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Investor's Business Daily - In today&#39;s high-tech world, there&#39;s a specialist for just about everything. For Synaptics, it&#39;s touch pads for notebook computers and other devices.
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Plus: Adobe earnings, outlook top Street...TiVo swings to a loss...HP profit gains on cost cuts, cheaper components.
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Investor's Business Daily - If you want to figure out which sector will be the next hot investment, you could try reams of research and hours of nonstop market study. But few individual investors have that kind of time.
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Investor's Business Daily - Networking giant Cisco Systems may be in short-term pain. But it's looking past that to long-term gain.
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Plus: Samsung SDI swings to loss...Outstanding earnings for Apple...Xerox profits from color printers...Alltel profit, revenue rise.
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Technology rise loses steam by close. Weakness in blue chips returns. Rising oil prices weigh. By Alexandra Twin, CNN/Money staff writer.
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Investor's Business Daily - If you have doubts about how mutual fund managers reacted to news that insurance broker Marsh &amp; McLennan was the target of a lawsuit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, you need look only at the share price.
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Investor's Business Daily - Spain has looked good for the last month -- but it&#39;s not the sun that&#39;s powering its shine. It&#39;s the rest of Europe, analysts say.
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Investor's Business Daily - Wall Street loves it when a company says it can keep a good thing going.
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Shares for Google slip for the first time since its public offering.  Also: FDA under fire for its slow Vioxx reaction & hellip;. Yahoo and SBC stay friends through new deal & hellip;. and more.
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Plus: Take-Two loss shrinks, but outlook falls short...Adobe profit up 21 percent...Dell income up 27 percent.