Weekly Highlights: Apple's iWatch Team Grows, Comcast Buys Time Warner Cable And More

This week Comcast CMCSA announced its plan to acquire Time Warner Cable TWC in what could be the largest merger of the year. Apple AAPL is rumored to have beefed up its iWatch development team even though the device itself has yet to be confirmed. Google GOOG also made it into the rumor mill, thanks to reports of multiple new Nexus devices. Verizon VZ got in trouble when it was accused of reducing the quality of Netflix NFLX video streams. AOL's AOL CEO got in trouble after opening his mouth (a frequent occurrence for the exec). And Bitcoin came under fire again after another hacker attack. Disclosure: At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.