This news is delayed. Get access to this information before it is priced into the market with a real-time news feed for only $1. Apple Inc. NASDAQ:AAPL, Avago Technologies Limited NASDAQ:AVGO - Weekly Tech Highlights: Apple's Big Event, Facebook Hits 1B Users In 24 Hours And More August came to a close with a highly anticipated event announcement and a social media milestone. Apple Confirmed Its September 9 Event, Teased Siri Announcement Apple Inc. AAPL 0.33% confirmed its event this week when it began to send out invitations for the September 9 extravaganza. As always, the invitation was light on words, but it did offer up one notable tagline: "Hey Siri, give us a hint." "That was just a play in with Siri," FBR Capital Markets analyst Daniel Ives told Benzinga. Apple expert https://twitter.com/UdallTechStrat!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs"); wondered why Apple would mention Siri without any plans to talk about it at the conference. "Why would they promote Siri [and] call it out especially?" Udall questioned. Facebook's Newest Milestone Is The Real Deal For the first time in history, one billion people used Facebook Inc FB 1.43% in 24 hours. Contrary to what some analysts assumed, that milestone was not reached by combining the total daily users from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That number referred entirely to... More