Weekly Highlights: Apple Inc.'s Bendable iPhone, BlackBerry Ltd's New Direction And More

Apple Inc. AAPL continued to drive headlines this week even without new product announcements or iDevice rumors. First Apple got the media's attention when reports claimed that the company was on the verge of closing Beats Music. Then the company made headlines once more when it was revealed that the iPhone 6 Plus can be bent in a user's pocket. Elsewhere, Yahoo! Inc. YHOO and AOL, Inc. AOL were pushed to merge. Samsung SSNLF plans to stop selling laptops in Europe. And BlackBerry Ltd BBRY began to head in a new direction. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.