Analysis: Why did Microsoft spend more than $1 billion for the social networking company? It could be because Yammer successfully marketed its business virally. 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 (2 months and 29 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 21 days 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 (7 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 21 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 9 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 (27 days ago)
Joachim Kempin is the former Microsoft exec who handled the company's interesting relationships with OEM partners. Now he's weighing in with ideas to bring Microsoft back to power.
gigaom.com (2 months and 30 days ago)
The launch of the Microsoft Windows 8 Surface Pro has not gone to plan. While many people have been waiting to see what Microsoft's second tablet device would be like, mistakes in presentation and allowing others to dictate the story has damaged the launch of the Surface Pro.
forbes.com (3 months and 9 days ago)

You don't expect to hear shocking news coming out of the annual Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference. Sure, the biggest names in technology put in regular appearances at the conference—the CEOs of Apple and Yahoo among them, this year—but no one ever says anything close to controversial. You don't want to rile the investors, after all. Microsoft CFO Peter Klein...
pcworld.com (3 months and 3 days ago)

TechCrunch is reporting that they’ve obtained internal documents containing an offer from Microsoft to buy Barnes & Noble’s Nook business, saying, “In this plan, Microsoft would redeem preferred units in Nook Media, which also includes a college book division, leaving it with the digital operation - e-books, as well as Nook e-readers and tablets.” Microsoft Mulling Nook...
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