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 ...

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. Surely some engineers at ...

Microsoft says Yammer users have jumped 55 percent to about 8 million in the year since it bought the corporate social-networking company.

A new app for Microsoft Teams allows people to use Yammer within Teams. The app is called "Communities" and it Yammer's functionality directly into Microsoft Teams.

Microsoft has brought its 'new' Yammer App into Microsoft Teams and is calling it 'Communities,' according to a Monday announcement.

Microsoft, which paid $1.2 billion to acquire Yammer last June, launches partner program to get the channel involved in selling and evangelizing the social networking technology.

Microsoft is fine-tuning further its Office businesses and is moving Yammer under Office 365. Yammer Co-founder David Sacks is leaving Microsoft.

But now Microsoft is moving Yammer into the Office 365 and Outlook development teams, which are headed by Microsoft Corporate Vice President Rajesh Jha.

Microsoft is making a big bet in that direction. It has acquired Yammer, an "enterprise social networking" startup, for $1.2 billion in cash.

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 ...

Microsoft is paying $1.2 billion for Yammer and is folding the enterprise social networking vendor into its Office division.