Google Stock Slumps After Weekend’s Embarrassing Network Outage

By CCN: Shares of Google are set to open lower when trading starts Monday following a network outage over the weekend that affected third parties and most of the tech giant’s services. In pre-market trading, shares of the online search giant’s parent company, Alphabet, were marked 2.9 percent lower. Alphabet closed Friday trading at $1,103.63 while pre-market trading prices on Monday were $1,071.45. As previously reported by CCN, at about 3 PM ET / 12 PM PT Google’s Cloud servi