Weekly Highlights: Apple Confirms Beats Buyout, Microsoft Teams With Salesforce & More

May concluded with a bang after Apple AAPL, Microsoft MSFT, Salesforce CRM and Google GOOG made a handful of big announcements. Apple, of course, confirmed that it will acquire Beats Electronics. Microsoft and Salesforce teamed up for Office integration. Google unveiled its latest plan for self-driving cars, which includes a wheel-free automobile. Researchers speculated that Twitter's TWTR global popularity could rise. Ubisoft UBSFY released its newest IP. And a startup told entrepreneurs to kill their ideas. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.