- Zahingir Alam Last Update: March 31, 2017

An Enterprise Social Network For Businesses And Team Collaboration

Yammer, Inc. is a freemium enterprise social networking service that was launched in 2008 by David Sacks, a former PayPal executive, developed the basic concept of Yammer while working on a startup project after he left PayPal in 2002 and sold to Microsoft in 2012.

The connection and access of this site is regulated by a user’s Internet domain so that only individuals with appropriate email addresses may join their respective networks and this site is used for private communication within organizations and is an example of enterprise social software. This was developed for internal communication system for the genealogy website Geni.

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On June 25, 2012, Microsoft acquired Yammer for US$1.2 billion in cash. Following the acquisition, Microsoft announced that the Yammer team would be incorporated into the Microsoft Office division, but would continue to report to Sacks.

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