Microsoft says it wants to buy social networking yammer with a value of 1.2 billion dollars. Yammer business social networking site has been used by more than 200 thousand companies mostly based in the U.S., such as Ford Motor and EBay.
"The acquisition of private business social network that will help Microsoft to reach out to corporate customers," said The Washington Post.
Deal with Yammer also predicted to increase competition with Windows software manufacturer Salesforce.com and Oracle Corporation.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to write a business social networking site founded in 2008 it agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.
"However, the certainty of the acquisition time is uncertain," says the WSJ quoted source is related to the acquisition. The second company spokesman, either Microsoft or Yammer, declined comment that related acquisitions.
Yammer, which is known as Facebook at work, creating a social network inside a company that makes it possible to share files and other applications, and this capability is a threat to the dominance of Microsoft's software business.
If the deal is finalized, it will be the second time in a year in which Microsoft bought a company of the younger to the initial public offering (IPO), the Journal said.
On May 2011, Microsoft purchased the voice and video services leader Internet, Skype, worth 8.5 billion U.S. dollars (approximately Rp 80.47 trillion), is the largest purchase ever made, in order to increase its presence in the online world dominated by Google and Facebook.
Skype announced late last month that they hope to increase the number of users quadrupling to be one billion mobile phone users and through partnerships with Facebook and other companies.
"The acquisition of private business social network that will help Microsoft to reach out to corporate customers," said The Washington Post.
Deal with Yammer also predicted to increase competition with Windows software manufacturer Salesforce.com and Oracle Corporation.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) to write a business social networking site founded in 2008 it agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.
"However, the certainty of the acquisition time is uncertain," says the WSJ quoted source is related to the acquisition. The second company spokesman, either Microsoft or Yammer, declined comment that related acquisitions.
Yammer, which is known as Facebook at work, creating a social network inside a company that makes it possible to share files and other applications, and this capability is a threat to the dominance of Microsoft's software business.
If the deal is finalized, it will be the second time in a year in which Microsoft bought a company of the younger to the initial public offering (IPO), the Journal said.
On May 2011, Microsoft purchased the voice and video services leader Internet, Skype, worth 8.5 billion U.S. dollars (approximately Rp 80.47 trillion), is the largest purchase ever made, in order to increase its presence in the online world dominated by Google and Facebook.
Skype announced late last month that they hope to increase the number of users quadrupling to be one billion mobile phone users and through partnerships with Facebook and other companies.
