Shortly after 9:30 A.M. today, the Dow Jones apparently fell victim to a “technical error” and began publishing fake news through its newswire about Google's acquisition of Apple. The news reportedly came from the Twitter and by 9to5Mac.
The newswire carried a series of reports that Google was buying Apple for $9 billion, with a deal set to close tomorrow, also reporting that the Steve Jobs approved the agreement in his own will. ….
Apparently the alerts were fake, and luckily there was no effect of the error on either company's stock price, most likely because anyone who thinks Google could buy Apple for $9 billion isn't trading high. speeds.
$ GOOG $ AAPL by Dow Jones... I guess you guys have some explaining to do pic.twitter.com/402KaCcQJz
- Trader 53 (@ trader_53) October 10, 2017
In a statement to 9to5Mac, Dow Jones apologized for the error.
"Please ignore the headlines that ran on the Dow Jones Newswires between 9:34 AM ET and 9:36 AM ET. They were published due to a technical error. All of these titles have been removed. We apologize for the inconvenience. "
To mention that the error the company claims seems to have been hacked by someone, but as can be seen from the statement it issued, Dow Jones is whistling indifferently…
