Motley Fool Money: 08.21.2009

Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Yahoo! team up against a tech rival. Starbucks announces that it's raising and lowering prices. And the Fed Chief expresses some optimism about the near term. In this installment of Motley Fool Money, we discuss those stories, share three stock ideas, and play a spirited game of "Which S&P 500 stocks have outperformed Google since Google went public five years ago?" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices