Mid-Morning Market Update: Markets Slip; Akamai To Acquire Prolexic For Around $370M

Following the market opening Monday, the Dow traded down 0.19 percent to 16,056.73 while the NASDAQ tumbled 0.08 percent to 4,056.75. The S&P also fell, dropping 0.04 percent to 1,805.08. Top Headline Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM ) announced it plans to buy Prolexic Technologies, a provider of cloud-based