Microsoft is buying Yammer for $1.2 billion for office application suite. Basically Yammer is a social network which was launched in september 2008. Yammer is used for communication within a organization and it is a private enterprise social network. Yammer is used by 3 million users and 80,000 companies across the world.
Yammer will remain to run in its San Francisco headquarters by its CEO David Sacks. Yammer will continue its service and provide its deal with Microsoft separately.
Yammer is similar to Facebook, Yammer connection in a organization or a company by posting ans sharing.
