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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Is corporate America ready to adopt social networking alongside traditional office tools like word processing apps and spreadsheets? Microsoft is making a big bet in that ...

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 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 ...

Microsoft has been equipping Office 365 with functions from the business-oriented social network it bought in 2012. Now Yammer staff will be part of the Office 365 development team. Mary Jo Foley has ...

Revenues for social networking site Yammer have been surging since Microsoft bought the company last summer and is sure to increase as Yammer gets woven into Sharepoint Online and Office 365. It ...

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 reached a deal to purchase the Yammer business software company for $1 billion in an apparent bid to shore up its widely-used Office software, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

With the backing of its new parent company, Yammer more than tripled its revenue year on year in the quarter that ended in March. Sales of Yammer’s cloud-based enterprise social networking (ESN) ...

As expected, Microsoft on Monday officially acquired enterprise social network Yammer for $1.2 billion. Yammer will join the Microsoft Office division, led by Kurt DelBene, and the Yammer team will ...