Today Microsoft finally announced the worst-kept secret in Silicon Valley, that they have acquired Yammer for $1.2Bn in cash. That values Yammer, an enterprise social network, roughly 3x on a per ...

Microsoft has confirmed that it's finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco ...

Yammer, which recently launched a "likes" feature, threaded conversations and a new push-enabled iPhone app, is rolling out "Yammer For Outlook," a Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 plug-in that ...

At UK-based multinational pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), when it comes to getting employees interacting with each other, Yammer is out and Workplace by Facebook is in. GSK, which once ...

Yammer, acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in cash, started out as just a side project, says George Zachary, Yammer's first investor.

By Owen Thomas Jun 25, 2012, 12:33 PM PT Flickr/The DEMO Conference The Yammer-Microsoft deal has just handed LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner a one-of-a-kind opportunity.

Yammer, SocialText and a string of other enterprise grade social tools clearly provide value. On the video, Arrington is at pains to point out that their 20 or so users love it.