Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA) and Verizon (NYSE:VZ) are dying a slow death…

Imagine waking up tomorrow morning with no access to the Internet. No e-mail. No news. No streaming video.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past six months, you know Detroit’s once unstoppable auto industry is dying a fast, public death.

Since the markets found a short-term bottom in March, we’ve witness the meteoric rise of many beaten-down small-caps. And of all the names and sectors that rebounded this spring, none was more impressive than the resort and casino stocks.

The small-cap universe is packed with thousands of stocks. And we know it can be a daunting task to find just two or three solid names… In fact, readers e-mail us every single day to ask how to search for the best penny stocks.

Monitoring insider buying is a great way to determine how those who run a company truly feel about its prospects. When a company insider lays down his own money to buy shares in his company at market prices, chances are that there is a very good reason.

What happens to the relationship between the small-cap investor and the unemployed consumer during a recession? Greg Gunner of Whiskey and Gunpowder has advice, buy low and sell high.

Greg Gunther of the Penny Sleuth points out that during tough times like these, cutting back on the household grocery budget is a sure way to save money. Here are two fast food stocks that attract the cash strapped customer and the small-cap investor.

The text message explosion began between 2005-2007. The number of SMS messages grew from about 10 billion to more than 48 billion per year then. And texting isn’t the only huge mobile trend you’ll have to contend with…