This week we're just going over the news, because there was a lot of it. Microsoft's nearing the peak of their comeback, AT&T's taking over Time Warner, Nintendo's taking their last shot at a console that does it all, and Apple plans to prove they still care about media professionals next week. (And more, of course!)

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• AT&T Is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Time WarnerDeal valuing Time Warner at more than $80 billion could happen as early as this weekend.
• Nintendo's Next Console Is Called Switch, and It Looks IncredibleNintendo dropped a Twitter bomb with the announcement of its much anticipated new console: the Nintendo Switch. Info about the Switch has been leaking out for the better part of a year now, but until today the Switch was referred to publicly as the NX.
• What We Know About Friday’s Massive East Coast Internet OutageFriday morning is prime time for some casual news reading, tweeting, and general Internet browsing, but you may have had some trouble accessing your usual sites and services this morning and throughout the day, from Spotify and Reddit to the New York Times and even good ol’ WIRED.com. For that, you can thank a distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that took down a big chunk of the Internet for most of the Eastern seaboard.
• Microsoft’s stock sets record as analysts hail it as a comeback kidMicrosoft Corp.’s stock soared above $60 a share to set an all-time intraday high on Friday after the company blew past earnings expectations and accelerated revenue growth for Azure, its cloud-computing business that competes directly with Amazon Web Services.
• Apple Invites Media to 'Hello Again' October 27th Mac-Centric EventApple sent out media invites for a Mac-centric event that will be held on Thursday, October 27 at 10:00 a.m. at Apple's Cupertino campus.

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