Quoted: Today, Yahoo filed a presentation detailing its three-year financial plan that management gave to its board of directors in December, before Microsoft’s unsolicited bid. These rosy projections should be read in the context of that ongoing battle and Yahoo’s attempt to get a better price out of Microsoft. But this presentation also sheds some light on where exactly Yahoo sees its strengths. After going through it, vote what you think Yahoo’s board should do.

Don't fully understand this.

Quoted: Most people think that the search and advertising markets are both likely to be extremely profitable for the top two players if there’s a duopoly; if on the other hand it settles down as a triopoly, then the margins will get squeezed and #2 and #3 will have a hard tie doing better than break-even. Right now, in the US, Google’s #1 in both, with Yahoo! #2 and Microsoft #3.

Quoted: Saying today's results were a "miss" is admittedly a bit of a joke, since Google doesn't give guidance. I also know there's a good argument that Google's got its long-term plans to think of, and so its spending is positive for the long haul. However, I think there's legitimate reason to worry about the ease in which this quickly growing company could lose focus with all the many irons it's got in the fire, not to mention the possibility that it could lose the plot a bit with such a rapidly expanding business. (Shouldn't investors be worried about discipline, too, if the company hired and spent more than it planned to?)

Hmm...good time to sell?

Quoted: Shares of Microsoft jumped $1.05, or 3.6 percent, to $30.15 in after-hours electronic trading, after adding 11 cents to close at $29.10 on the Nasdaq Stock Market.

Wow, Microsoft gained 1.76% today and crossed 30 for the first time in awhile.

Read this at the gym yesterday. It does make me feel better about being an investor in Microsoft. It seems like cultural changes are starting to happen -- even with Ballmer himself. Also, I didn't realize that Xbox is bringing in $4.6 billion in sales and will turn its first profit in the "next fiscal year".

Quoted: Edgy thinkers like J Allard are looking far beyond Windows for the next big thing

More detail regarding the plummet in yahoo stock today.

Quoted: Yahoo said it is delaying until the first quarter the launch of the advertising system that had been expected to start in the fall. Yahoo wants to better compete with Google's system of publishing text-based ads on its sites near search results - and on thousands of other sites, greatly expanding its reach.

Not too often than Microsoft misses earnings...

Quoted: However, at 31 cents per share, excluding legal expenses, the company's earnings missed by 2 cents the consensus of analysts polled by Thomson Financial. They also fell just short of the company's own projections. After closing at $27.75, Microsoft shares dropped more than 6 percent in after-hours trading, to $25.50.