Weekly Highlights: Apple's New Security Threat, Google's Latest Outage And More

by Louis Bedigian, Benzinga Staff Writer

November 15, 2014 9:43 AM | 1 min read |

This was not the best week for some of the industry's biggest tech giants.

Apple Inc.'sAAPL

mobile operating system, iOS, was plagued by a new security vulnerability.

Google IncGOOG

was plagued by a massive (but very brief) DoubleClick outage.

Hasbro, Inc.HAS

could merge with

DreamWorks Animation Skg IncDWA

Facebook Inc'sFB

Messenger app surpassed the 500 million user mark. And

Alibaba Group Holding LtdBABA

celebrated the annual Singles Day in China with big sales. Disclosure:

At the time of this writing, Louis Bedigian had no position in the equities mentioned in this slideshow.

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