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

May concluded with a bang after

,

,

and

made a handful of big announcements. Apple, of course, confirmed that it will acquire

. 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

global popularity could rise.

released its newest IP. And a startup told entrepreneurs to kill their ideas. Disclosure: