About six months ago, Microsoft acquired San Francisco's Yammer for $1.2 billion. The price tag for the on-the-job social-networking service still seems shocking.

Microsoft bought Yammer in 2012 for $1.2 billion. The service is essentially a social network for corporate users and resembles Facebook in its setup, with threaded posts and sharing options.

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With its broad focus, Yammer also supports leadership engagement in a two-way dialogue. Many organizations, including Microsoft, use Yammer as a foundation for making an “executive connection.” ...

It has acquired Yammer, an "enterprise social networking" startup, for $1.2 billion in cash. The deal is Microsoft's biggest acquisition since Skype, which it bought last year for $8.5 billion.

Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Yammer, a social network service for businesses, for $1.2 billion in cash, the New York Times reported.

Microsoft has taken the first step in its integration roadmap for SharePoint and Yammer, allowing Office 365 customers to replace SharePoint Online's activity stream with Yammer's.

Microsoft's guidance for Windows Phone users is to access Skype for Business, Teams, and Yammer via their web browser. In related news, Microsoft also noted last week that it will be removing a ...

Microsoft Corp agreed to buy online social network firm Yammer Inc for $1.2 billion in cash, which will allow the software company to offer a service like Facebook Inc's to corporate customers.

Today, Microsoft announced that, among other updates, it will offer a Yammer integration in Teams, its Slack competitor. Yammer in Teams will live in the left-hand sidebar.

Microsoft announced that it has struck a deal to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion. Yammer is a social networking outfit geared to business and it has some five million corporate users.