The rumors were true: Microsoft is indeed buying business-centric social networking site Yammer for $1.2 billion, or $200 million more than early rumors indicated. A presumably pleased Microsoft CEO ...

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 ...

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 says Yammer users have jumped 55 percent to about 8 million in the year since it bought the corporate social-networking company. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, overseeing a ...

MBA courses, which are increasingly addressing real-time news, may soon focus their lenses on Microsoft's $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer, often referred to as the "Facebook for businesses." But ...

Microsoft is reportedly close to buying Yammer, a privately held social enterprise vendor, for more than $1 billion. The deal highlights how the big guns are chasing social enterprise at all costs and ...

Microsoft (NAS: MSFT) is opening its pocketbook once again, this time to acquire enterprise social-networking company Yammer for about $1.2 billion. This follows Microsoft's biggest ever acquisition ...

Microsoft is acquiring enterprise social networking company Yammer Inc. for $1.2 billion in cash. Completion of the deal still depends on regulatory approvals being cleared, but Microsoft officials ...

Yammer is apparently doing fine about eight months after Microsoft announced the company's acquisition. Yammer's acquisition, completed in July, apparently didn't diminish the popularity of the ...

Microsoft has announced this week that it has purchased Yammer, a provider of enterprise social networks, for $1.2 billion in cash. Yammer was launched back in 2008 and was created to provide an area ...

— June 25, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. and Yammer Inc. today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social ...