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Why Did Microsoft Acquire Yammer?

Why Did Microsoft Acquire Yammer?

By Jacob Morgan on June 26, 2012

If you haven’t heard the news yet, Microsoft has officially announced that they acquired Yammer for 1.2 billion dollars.  I’ve had several discussions around this over the past week or so, ever since the rumors first started circulating.  It’s an interesting move and I think it makes sense. Yammer has just under a million paid […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged collaboration, Events, microsoft buys yammer, microsoft yammer deal, Rants and Musings, why microsoft bought yammer, yammer acquisition, yams | 2 Responses

With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social

With Yammer, Microsoft Begins Its Journey From Collaborative To Social

By Chirag Mehta on June 25, 2012

Confirming what we already knew, today Microsoft announced they are acquiring Yammer for $1.2 billion in cold cash. Here’s a blog post by David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer. Microsoft doesn’t report a revenue breakdown for their individual products but SharePoint is believed to be one of the fastest growing products with annual revenue of […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged cloud computing, collaboration, microblogging, microsoft, Microsoft Sharepoint, network effect, saas, sharepoint, skype, Social Enterprise, yammer, yams | 1 Response

Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

Microsoft Buys Yammer- A Two Minute Analysis

By Ben Kepes on June 25, 2012

So Microsoft has confirmed the rumored acquisition of Yammer for $1.2B. Here’s my thoughts; Potentially this is a great opportunity for MSFT to create a fabric that spans their different enterprise products (Dynamics, Office, SharePoint) that’s a big big opportunity but I believe technology and platform hurdles will push that possibility well into the future […]

Posted in Application Software, Business, Featured Posts | Tagged microsoft, microsoft dynamics, Microsoft Sharepoint, netsuite, salesforce.com, Social Enterprise, Steve Ballmer, yammer, yams | 2 Responses

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