Weekly Highlights: Apple Sold 51M iPhones, ABC's Piracy Problem, Google Dumped Motorola And More

Apple AAPL didn't have any major products to unveil this week, but the Mac maker did make one major announcement. Once again, Apple has set a new record for quarterly iPhone sales. Meanwhile, Google GOOG got out of the smartphone manufacturing business and sold Motorola Mobility to Lenovo LNVGY. Amazon AMZN was rumored to be developing a game console (again!). Super Bowl ticket prices were down in the secondary market. Piracy skyrocketed for all of ABC's shows. Microsoft MSFT could be on the verge of a new CEO. Samsung SSNLF announced its plans to release a 4K smartphone in 2015. And Facebook FB unveiled a new app. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.