5 Most Read Stories On Benzinga This Week

1. Shares of Yahoo! Inc YHOO surged higher after an anonymous author explored a potential takeover of the company by Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's BABA founder Jack Ma. "The acquisition of Yahoo is something I worked [on] a couple of years ago, this is a political problem, not an economic problem, Yahoo is a media, more sensitive," Jack Ma allegedly told the author. 2. Shares of Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc LL plummeted almost 24 percent last week after management announced the company would be the subject of a 60 Minutes exposé on Sunday, March 1. As Anderson Cooper explained on the broadcast, Lumber Liquidators' Chinese-made laminate flooring contains dangerous levels of formaldehyde. 3. TipRanks analyzed analysts on Wall Street, and provided dynamic rankings to its users. There are many analysts out there, but who are the ones writing reports that are actually worth reading? Benzinga sat down with TipRanks to find out and presented the list to its readers. 4. On CNBC's Mad Money, Jim Cramer said that traders who bought shares of Lumber Liquidators Holdings Inc LL should not take any chances in the name. He would stop looking for the floor in the stock. 5. Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry told Benzinga, "I am more worried about Android than BlackBerry. Even though they have the market numbers, Android is in trouble right now." Chowdhry's comments came after BlackBerry Ltd BBRY announced Leap, its latest smartphone. The device is being targeted at a niche group of consumers: entrepreneurs.