Microsoft Buys Yammer for $1.2B

Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer for for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer is one of the largest providers of enterprise social networks, allowing companies to implement their own Twitter-like service for their employees. We've used the service here at Social Times and found it to be effective, and this is a smart move by Microsoft.

Microsoft has agreed to purchase Yammer for for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer is one of the largest providers of enterprise social networks, allowing companies to implement their own Twitter-like service for their employees. We’ve used the service here at Social Times and found it to be effective, and this is a smart move by Microsoft.

Yammer will fall under the Microsoft Office Division, and the team will continue to report to current Yammer CEO David Sacks.

5 million corporate users use Yammer across hundreds of organizations.

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