up katie couric and david poe. >> reporter: number 8, blackberry not dead yet, according to the company, at least. smartphone granddaddy's taken drastic measures to keep itself alive, and put itself up for sale, laid off around 40% of its workforce before cancelling plans to sell itself. and even that may not save the company. >> reporter: number 7, tech winners, a year and a half after facebook's face-plant ipo, the stock higher than where it started, and twitter once on the new york stock exchange, making co-founders very, very, very wealthy. but neither facebook nor twitter can match google when it comes to share price. google shares topped $1,000 a year, thanks in profits to the company's ad business. >> reporter: number six, in bitcoin we trust. now, bitcoin, which is the electronic cash, shows the world that it's real, at least for