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

This was not the best week for some of the industry's biggest tech giants. Apple Inc.'s AAPL mobile operating system, iOS, was plagued by a new security vulnerability. Google Inc GOOG was plagued by a massive (but very brief) DoubleClick outage. Hasbro, Inc. HAS could merge with DreamWorks Animation Skg Inc DWA. Facebook Inc's FB Messenger app surpassed the 500 million user mark. And Alibaba Group Holding Ltd BABA 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.