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Progressly, a new platform for supporting growth within large enterprises, just got a big boost in both money and staffing. Ruslan Belkin, a former top exec from Twitter and LinkedIn will be joining

Enterprise communications is not a sector that typically generates palpable excitement. In the enterprise, the plumbing is never as exciting as the fixtures, and people spend more time noticing what c

Get ready for Yammer, Microsoft announced today - and it's not kidding. Microsoft said this afternoon it will begin to activate Yammer for all its eligible Office 365 business customers starting today

When you have a question at a small company, you always know who to ask. But as corporations grow, it becomes impossible to remember everyone's names, let alone their areas of expertise, and communica

Today Yammer’s founder and former CEO David Sacks announced that he will depart Microsoft, the software company that purchased his social enterprise startup for $1.2 billion. His exit, which com

Microsoft is bringing Yammer to more of its Office 365 SKUs, making the latter a more tempting offer. Educational and medium-business packages of Office 365 now come with Yammer. Microsoft added the s

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.cotap.com">Cotap</a>, an enterprise messaging startup founded by ex-Yammer execs, launched <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/ex-yammer-execs-raise-5-5m-for

Microsoft took a big step into enterprise collaboration when it acquired Yammer, and an equally big step into VoIP when it bought Skype. Now it's taking an investment in <a target="_blank" href="http:

<a target="_blank" href="modeanalytics.com">Mode</a>, a company that is building an online repository for data science work, announced today that it has secured a $550,000 seed round of funding, led b

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.tomfoolery.com">Tomfoolery</a>, the mobile app lab founded by ex-Yahoo and AOL execs committed to making enterprise solutions more consumer-friendly, is today launc

Today Yammer announced two new public, open source SDKs for its social enterprise communications service, one for Windows Phone 8, and one for iOS. Android, for now, remains on the outside of the Yamm

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.applause.com/">Applause</a> is a new service that analyzes data from top app stores to help businesses understand how their mobile apps compare across user reviews

<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/06/25/its-official-microsoft-confirms-it-has-acquired-yammer-for-1-2-billion-in-cash/">One year to the day</a> after Microsoft announced that it would acquire ente

Microsoft's SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration of Lync and Skype, the folks over in Redmond are clearly ready

Microsoft today <a target="_blank" href="http://blogs.office.com/b/office-news/archive/2013/05/09/yammer-and-office-365-aligning-for-scale.aspx">announced</a> that it will fold about 100 sales people

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.salesforce.com/chatter/overview/">Chatter</a> will become the primary interface for Salesforce.com, CEO Marc Benioff said today at the kickoff of a national tour fo

The news feed is getting increasingly complex. It's evident in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/18/the-new-salesforce-com-crm-platform-is-chatter-and-its-made-for-mobile/">Salesforce Chatter</a

Microsoft wants to make Yammer the social layer across all of its products and today, at Convergence 2013, the company announced a more detailed roadmap for how it plans to do so. Earlier this year,

Yammer CEO and Founder David Sacks said to me in an interview this past weekend that SXSW is showing that suddenly enterprise technology is sexy. Sorry, I don't buy it. Enterprise is as sexy as a h