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Microsoft Said to Be in Talks to Acquire Yammer Social Network

23 points by sinzone 14y ago

visa 14y ago
Guys checkout how much microsoft is paying to its employees http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/microsoft-corp-295368.html http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/microsoft-co...
wensing 14y ago
I wonder what Yammer's revenues are.
- onetwothreefour 14y ago
  They've raised $142M, and selling for $1B, so... probably not much in revenues.
- bullcrab 14y ago
  it's said to be $10M per year.
sparknlaunch 14y ago
I wonder if the recent integration into Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) had anything to do with this deal? Great result for Yammer. There was a great 'On this week in Startups' podcast interview earlier this year with David Sacks (Yammer CEO). Interesting business. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Yammer-Integrates-With-Microsoft-Dynamics-1647925.htm http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Yammer-Integrates-Wi...
bullcrab 14y ago
Give me $100K and I'll rewrite it to you in node.js - this is bs.
- retube 14y ago
  The value is not the code. It's the customers.
  - clhodapp 14y ago
    Supporting your point is the fact that Yammer runs on the JVM.
bullcrab 14y ago
Jive is doing $50M in annual revenues and their public value is $1B. How come these guys are valued at a billion dollars with only $10M rumored annual revenue. bs.
robryan 14y ago
Are many out there using this product effectively. We have one for our coworking space and I mostly only check the weekly update emails. On one end of usage spectrum it is probably easier just to have a Facebook page, on the other end of usage you are probably better of with something designed more around project management. The product is fine but for me has become yet another social tool to try and find time for.
- jwr 14y ago
  We use it on a daily basis. It's... well, let's say its better than any of its competitors. We tried using Salesforce Chatter, as well as Jabber-based solutions, none worked as well as Yammer does. Still, Yammer has plenty of problems. Their iPhone/iPad apps suck badly (as an example, getting rid of a notification requires 3-4 actions within the app), but at least they exist. Their desktop app is Adobe AIR based, which means all kinds of bloat, slowness, annoyances and bugs. Let's put it this way: if I could get Yammer with a mobile interface like Tweetbot or at least Twitter, I'd be happy.

23 points by sinzone 14y ago

visa 14y ago

Guys checkout how much microsoft is paying to its employees http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/microsoft-corp-295368.html http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/microsoft-co...

wensing 14y ago

I wonder what Yammer's revenues are.

onetwothreefour 14y ago
They've raised $142M, and selling for $1B, so... probably not much in revenues.
bullcrab 14y ago
it's said to be $10M per year.

sparknlaunch 14y ago

I wonder if the recent integration into Microsoft Dynamics (CRM) had anything to do with this deal? Great result for Yammer. There was a great 'On this week in Startups' podcast interview earlier this year with David Sacks (Yammer CEO). Interesting business. http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Yammer-Integrates-With-Microsoft-Dynamics-1647925.htm http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Yammer-Integrates-Wi...

bullcrab 14y ago

Give me $100K and I'll rewrite it to you in node.js - this is bs.

retube 14y ago
The value is not the code. It's the customers.
- clhodapp 14y ago
  Supporting your point is the fact that Yammer runs on the JVM.

bullcrab 14y ago

Jive is doing $50M in annual revenues and their public value is $1B. How come these guys are valued at a billion dollars with only $10M rumored annual revenue. bs.

robryan 14y ago

Are many out there using this product effectively. We have one for our coworking space and I mostly only check the weekly update emails. On one end of usage spectrum it is probably easier just to have a Facebook page, on the other end of usage you are probably better of with something designed more around project management. The product is fine but for me has become yet another social tool to try and find time for.

jwr 14y ago
We use it on a daily basis. It's... well, let's say its better than any of its competitors. We tried using Salesforce Chatter, as well as Jabber-based solutions, none worked as well as Yammer does. Still, Yammer has plenty of problems. Their iPhone/iPad apps suck badly (as an example, getting rid of a notification requires 3-4 actions within the app), but at least they exist. Their desktop app is Adobe AIR based, which means all kinds of bloat, slowness, annoyances and bugs. Let's put it this way: if I could get Yammer with a mobile interface like Tweetbot or at least Twitter, I'd be happy.