Weekly Highlights: Apple And Comcast Union, King's Botched IPO, Facebook Drones And More

This week Microsoft MSFT was thought to have set a goal for tablet sales in 2014. Intel INTC may have done the same. King KING defended its disappointing public debut. Facebook FB spent $2 billion on yet another startup. Microsoft released Office for the iPad. Apple AAPL was rumored to be having talks with Comcast CMCSA, but a well-known analyst quickly shot down any hopes of a lucrative deal. Dish Network DISH and DirecTV DTV were rumored to merge again. And Facebook confirmed that it is in the drone business -- but not for the same reasons as Amazon. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this report.