Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out

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    Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out


    Posted: 24 Jul 2014
    Microsoft is fine-tuning further its Office businesses and is moving Yammer under Office 365.

    Ever since Microsoft bought enterprise social-networking vendor Yammer two years ago for $1.2 billion, the Redmondians have allowed Yammer to continue to operate fairly independently.

    But Microsoft management may be tightening its grasp a bit on the San Francisco-based Yammer business.

    On July 24, Yammer Co-founder David Sacks announced on Twitter that he was leaving Microsoft and Yammer.
    Read more at: Microsoft moves Yammer under Office 365; Co-founder David Sacks is out | ZDNet
    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    24 Jul 2014



  1. Posts : 548
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    First time hearing about a "Yammer", who/what are they?
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  2. Posts : 25,847
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    The best I can tell yammer is a business to business chat room.
    That is just a guess
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  3. Posts : 20,583
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    Founder of Yammer gets the hammer
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    ThrashZone said:
    Founder of Yammer gets the hammer
    and "Sacks" is the word?
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  5. Posts : 5,941
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    Hi there

    Yammer !!!! WOTISIT !! Never heard of it. I've been in a few different businesses and can say they certainly don't use it.

    Cheers
    jimbo
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  6. Posts : 9,600
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    Another loser business Ballsmore bought?
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  7. Posts : 193
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    My company uses Yammer as an employee social networking site. Like a corporate only Facebook.
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  8. Posts : 501
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    Wat is yammer? MS bought some hammer and tried to break Windows 8 with it?
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    aritra2116 said:
    Wat is yammer? MS bought some hammer and tried to break Windows 8 with it?
    No, M$ didn't need the hammer.
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