As expected, Microsoft on Monday officially acquired enterprise social network Yammer for $1.2 billion. full story ![]()

Yammer plans to roll out an integration with the SkyDrive Pro cloud storage product and the Office Web Apps Web-hosted productivity application suite this summer. The initiative is part of Yammer's ongoing push to deepen and extend the integration of its cloud-hosted enterprise social-networking software with products from Microsoft, which acquired Yammer last July for...
pcworld.com (3 months ago)

Microsoft is claiming its $1.2 billion acquisition of enterprise social collaboration platform Yammer eight months ago has started to pay off. Writing in a company blogpost, the Microsoft Office team say Yammer's sales grew 259% year-on-year in its most recent quarter. It added 312 customers in March, which marked the company's "best month to-date in terms of user...
techradar.com (8 days ago)
Microsoft Translator-powered message translation for business collaboration platform set for 'late spring' release to Yammer enterprise customers.
pcmag.com (2 months and 23 days ago)

MICROSOFT'S Yammer social network for enterprises will add message translation to help firms with multilingual operations.
news.com.au (2 months and 23 days ago)
Enterprise social networking software, which offers social media capabilities adapted for workplace collaboration like employee profiles, activity streams, microblogging and document sharing, has evolved from a "nice to have" to a "should have" status in enterprises.Picking up on that shift, Microsoft plunked down more than $1 billion last summer to buy Yammer -- at the time...
pcworld.com (29 days ago)
Filed under: Investing ABB has agreed to implement Microsoft's Office 365 and its enterprise social network, Yammer, utilizing the cloud-based solutions across its international operations, Microsoft announced today. Currently, ABB utilizes multiple enterprise solutions to communicate among its 145,000 employees located in 100 countries. ABB provides power and automation...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 10 days ago)
Activist investor ValueAct Capital has taken a $2 billion stake in Microsoft, according to ValueAct's chief executive, helping Microsoft shares climb to a seven-month high.
mercurynews.com (29 days ago)
The Danish taxman appears to want Microsoft to cough up $1 billion or more in back taxes. From what I understand of the dispute they're not actually going to be able to make such a charge stick.
forbes.com (2 months and 18 days ago)
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp priced its $2.7 billion bond offering, sold in the U.S. and Euro markets, as it is rushing in before larger rival Apple Inc looks to raise money from the bond market to fund its mammoth $100 billion capital return program.
reuters.com (26 days ago)
Microsoft sold nearly $3 billion in debt, getting some of the year's lowest rates and tapping bond investors before rival Apple issues its expected bond.
wsj.com (26 days ago)
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