Shortly after 9:30 a.m. Today, the Dow Jones apparently fell victim to a "technical error" and started posting fake news via newswire about Apple's acquisition by Google. The news reportedly came from Twitter and by 9to5Mac.
The newswire carried a series of alerts who reported that Google bought Apple for 9 billionmillions dollars, with a deal to close tomorrow, also stating that the Steve Jobs approved the agreement on its own behalfcase of. ….
Apparently the alerts were fake and luckily there was no impact from the bug on price of each company's stock, most likely because anyone who thinks Google could buy Apple for $9 billion isn't doing high-speed trading.
$ 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…
