What Investors Need to Know: Best Buy's Buyout, Apple vs. Google Maps, and the Most Googled Stocks

The following video is from Thursday's MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill, along with analysts Joe Tenebruso and Jason Moser, discuss the top business and investing stories.

In today's edition, is Best Buy actually a buy? And who really won the war between Apple and Google over the Apple Maps controversy? Finally, we hear the list of the most Googled stocks of the year and discuss which ones were surprises and which weren't.

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