While these figures don't exactly inspire confidence in Yahoo's abilities or the success of its future plans, they did beat market forecasts by about 2 cents per share. But its simply not enough to turn the tide in Yahoo's favor and put the brakes on Microsoft's takeover bid. Speaking of which, the language from Yahoo Execs. seems to have softened a bit.

Excerpt from the article says it best: "There’s been so much commentary on the proposed mega merger, it borders on overwhelming. Anyone with an inkling of insight on tech and an opinion is weighing in while we all wait for the next dose of fact to supplant innuendo. While I wait, one wonder keeps hitting me: is Microsoft’s collective head in the cloud?