Microsoft has acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion, the companies announced Monday, June. 25. The deal had been an open secret for more than a week. Yammer is a product that allows companies and ...

— -- Microsoft's announcement Monday that it will acquire Yammer, a social network for corporate use, sparked concerns about whether it paid too much, too late. The $1.2 billion buyout comes as ...

analysis Microsoft may be spending more than $1 billion on a social UI for SharePoint. But couldn't one of Microsoft's many skunkworks teams build something similar? Microsoft is reportedly close to ...

Microsoft officials have discussed publicly the company's planned timeline for integrating its Yammer enterprise social-networking technology with products like SharePoint. Now they're also starting ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Microsoft today revealed its plans for Yammer, the company’s enterprise ...

It has been a big week for Microsoft Office, with the release of the preview of its next major version. Now comes word that Microsoft has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, the business ...

Microsoft has been equipping Office 365 with functions from the business-oriented social network it bought in 2012. Now Yammer staff will be part of the Office 365 development team. Mary Jo Foley has ...

Though many observers may have forgotten about Yammer, the business-oriented social network Microsoft acquired in 2012 for $1.2 billion, the company hasn’t. Microsoft today unveiled what it called a ...

For the first time in a long time, Microsoft is the tech company stealing all the headlines, and it’s doing it again this week, making its rumored $1-billion acquisition of Yammer official Monday.

With the backing of its new parent company, Yammer more than tripled its revenue year on year in the quarter that ended in March. Sales of Yammer’s cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) ...

Microsoft just paid $1.2 billion for Yammer. But it still plans on giving away the company's social-networking service for free. At least, that's the word from David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer, a San ...

Since Microsoft acquired it in 2012, Yammer has been the odd application out. Microsoft's latest updates bring the chat application closer to the rest of the Microsoft 365 family. Although it's been a ...