I used to read Investor's Business Daily to get some ideas of companies that would be good to follow. I got a lot of good ideas out of that newspaper. INVN, KKD, BUD, BRK.b, SHOO, TMTA, BID, TIF, EBAY, ENE (one bodacious dead cat bounce) and a lot more I can't remember.
Now these are not current whatsoever. Now I follow NQ for simplicity, and cast a hairy eyball on MSFT every morning, Done that for the past 2 years.