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Stocks To Watch POSITIVEID CORPORATION (OTC BB: PSID) Up 46.84% on Wednesday PositiveID Corporation (PSID) develops and markets healthcare and information management products through its RFID-based diagnostic devices and identification technologies, and its proprietary disease management tools. PositiveID operates in two main divisions: HealthID and ID Security. [wikichart align="center" ticker="PSID" showannotations="true" livequote="true" startdate="17-05-2011" enddate="17-11-2011"...

Stocks To Watch BAZI, PPTO, PSID, WNYN Thursday, November 17th Stocks To Watch include BAZI International Inc. (OTCBB: BAZI), Precision Petroleum Corp. (OTCBB: PPTO), PositiveID Corp. (OTCBB: PSID) and Warp 9 Inc. (OTCBB: WNYN) BAZI, PPTO, PSID, WNYN OTC Daily Stocks and Penny Stocks to Watch Digest [caption id="attachment_1448" align="alignright" width="300" caption="11-17-11 Stocks To Watch BAZI, PPTO, PSID, WNYN"][/caption] Strategic Penny [...]

Courtesy of Jr. Deputy Accountant  Maybe it’s the buzz of Wisconsin’s attention-whoring politicians Scott Walker and Paul Ryan, maybe it’s cheesebreeze-induced delirium, maybe he’s just slow. Anyway, for so...

This is a relative surprise for H1N1-related stock news: a high-tech company that trippled in price due to H1N1. VeriChip Corp (CHIP) soared yesterday after the company was granted an exclusive license to two patents, which will help it to develop implantable virus detection systems in humans. The patents are for biosensors that can detect the H1N1 and other viruses, and biological threats such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. This is very interesting technology. The...

An announcement today regarding the exclusive license granted to controversial chip-implant maker VeriChip (CHIP) for H1N1 detection sent CHIP shares hurtling nearly out of orbit -- up 178%, or over $2 per share -- to around $3.20 by Monday afternoon. Other news reports have cited that this is the biggest intra-day gain since the company [...]

An Associated Press story via the Washington Post reports that studies have found that implanted chips have induced cancers in some rats and mice. This is another blow to the use of RFID technology for human identification. It's also encountering opposition on privacy grounds. California passed a law last week anyone from [...]