Microsoft announced
on Monday that it would buy Yammer, a social network service for businesses,
for $1.2 billion in cash, as it seeks to strengthen its enterprise software
business and compete more directly with Salesforce.com. Yammer, which calls
itself "the enterprise social network," is a sort of Facebook for
business. Its Web-based service allows companies to create private social
networks, where employees can privately chat, shares files and collaborate on
projects. Though Microsoft's suite of software has become ubiquitous in homes
and offices, the company has fallen behind on social networking applications
for businesses. The company offers SharePoint, a collaboration platform, but
the service is primarily used to share and manage documents. With Yammer,
Microsoft will be able to pin its applications to a social graph flush with
communication tools…
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