Chart Of The Day: Steve Jobs Leaves, Apple's Stock Soars (aapl)

Since Steve Jobs left his post as CEO of Apple, the stock has taken off, rising 10%. Somewhat surprising, since you would think the stock would tank after the company lost its visionary leader.

Apple is trading at an all time high, closing today at $413. The company's market cap is $390, and it will soon be over $400 billion, giving it a very good chance to be worth more than Google and Microsoft combined.

But, the Jobs situation was hanging over the stock, keeping it in a holding pattern. With him out, that uncertainty is out of the way.

Also holding the stock in check -- the company deviated from its normal pattern by not releasing a new iPhone this summer. The next iPhone launch is expected in weeks, which is getting investors excited.

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AOL Leaves A (Claw)Mark On Poached-Away Execs (AOL, YHOO)

When, after six weeks of recruiting, North American sales chief Mark Ellis finally quit AOL to take a position with more responsibility (and more money) at a much larger and more powerful company, Yahoo, AOL tried to make it look like AOL had actually pushed Ellis out.

How calculated was this plot?

Two sources tell us that on the day AOL announced Ellis's departure internally – and leaked the story to the press – AOL advertising president Jeff Levick demanded Ellis submit his resignation immediately before Ellis was to board a flight. Resignation in hand, Levick waited until Ellis boarded that plane before pushing out the news. The move assured it would be hours before Ellis was back on the ground and able to correct any the subsequent "Ellis-got-canned" spin on the story.

Kara Swisher hinted at AOL's efforts in a recent story on Ellis's move:

While AOL portrayed the move as a well-planned reorganization in an internal memo, the departure of Ellis was a new wrinkle. Several sources said Armstrong found out a week ago about Yahoo’s interest in hiring Ellis, whom Yahoo had been pursing Ellis for far longer.

This is not the first time AOL left it's (claw)mark on an exec quitting for Yahoo. When Shashi Seth quit AOL for Yahoo a year ago, he wrote – with perhaps foolishly explicit detail – in his email to Jeff Levick that he needed to move back West in part because he was having marital problems.  Levick forwarded that email on to the entire AOL's advertising email list.

Asked for response to a story about how "AOL tried to spin it like Ellis was pushed out, but was not," an AOL spokesperson said "Not the case (and is old news)."

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• AOL Sales Exec Ellis Not Fired, Going To Yahoo
• Yahoo In Talks To Dump Yahoo Japan
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This Is What It Looks Like When An Entire Country Leaves The Internet

Yes, Egypt did shut off the internet, as scattered reports indicated.

Internet monitoring firm Renesys explains:

Confirming what a few have reported this evening: in an action unprecedented in Internet history, the Egyptian government appears to have ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet. Critical European-Asian fiber-optic routes through Egypt appear to be unaffected for now. But every Egyptian provider, every business, bank, Internet cafe, website, school, embassy, and government office that relied on the big four Egyptian ISPs for their Internet connectivity is now cut off from the rest of the world. Link Egypt, Vodafone/Raya, Telecom Egypt, Etisalat Misr, and all their customers and partners are, for the moment, off the air.

At 22:34 UTC (00:34am local time), Renesys observed the virtually simultaneous withdrawal of all routes to Egyptian networks in the Internet's global routing table. Approximately 3,500 individual BGP routes were withdrawn, leaving no valid paths by which the rest of the world could continue to exchange Internet traffic with Egypt's service providers. Virtually all of Egypt's Internet addresses are now unreachable, worldwide.

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The 5-inch Dell Streak’s TV Commercial Leaves Out Something Big

The Dell Streak is clever device, but with its 5-inch screen, a touch on the large size for a phone and a touch on the small size for tablet. Still, a good amount swear by it saying it's the best of both -- like this commercial. It cleverly shows all the usefulness that comes with the larger screen like games, navigation, Facebook, video capture -- really everything -- but in true marketing fashion, does so without showing the downside transporting the large device. Not that you can blame them, though. It's the job of marketing to point out all the pros while minimizing the cons. Still, a 5-inch slate might seem like a great product until you try to put it in your pant's pocket. Or in the cup holder of your car. Or in a shirt pocket. Or on your hip in a holster. Yeah, the Streak is a clever device, but it's also a big device. Your call whether it's a pro or a con. The commercial after the break will try to sway you to the former though.

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