Comment Re:$20B the value of Steve Ballmer leaving (Score 1) 357
Why not? FaceBook reporting nothing profits causes the company to be worth close to $100bn. A lot of what the market reflects is flavours of the month, FaceBook's potential is realised to be possible even if by a small margin so every man and their dog pours their superannuation into a company that has a fraction of the asset base of say Google but expects it to be bigger within 5 years.
Microsoft stating that Balmer is going to leave will drive profits even further. Depending on how the news will spin it. Don't forget MSFT lost about 11% last quarter so some of that can just be reclaimed losses after the Surface "brainfart" that took place.