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This may have been a shorter work week for some, but that didn't stop the tech industry from pumping out some notable headlines.
GoogleGOOG took the lead this week, but not for the most positive reason. Gmail, its hugely popular e-mail service, went down for the first time in 2014.
The search engine giant also made headlines after a rumor claimed that Bitcoin will come to Google Wallet.
In the land of all things
AppleAAPL, TrendForce told Benzinga how a larger iPhone will pose a significant threat to
SamsungSSNLF.
Activist investor Carl Icahn purchased $500 million worth of Apple stock.
LenovoLNVGY acquired
IBM'sIBM x86 server business.
eBay's CEO said that he would like to keep PayPal within the eBay family (despite an offer from Carl Icahn to spin it off).
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denied a rumor claiming that it wanted to get into the pay-TV business.
MicrosoftMSFT was voted the most trusted and reliable company in technology.
Hewlett-PackardHPQ revived Windows 7.
Last but not least,
VerizonVZ purchased the pay-TV tech that
IntelINTC developed but no longer wanted.
Disclosure:
At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.Loading...
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