It was only four years ago that Microsoft dropped a cool $1.2 billion on Yammer, which bills itself as a social network for work. Today Microsoft unveiled its long-awaited Slack competitor, Microsoft ...

SharePoint has had social features — from a profile page to a way of writing blogs and finding people — for several years now. But the most obvious social feature, the SharePoint news feed, was ...

Though many observers may have forgotten about Yammer, the business-oriented social network Microsoft acquired in 2012 for $1.2 billion, the company hasn’t. Microsoft today unveiled what it called a ...

At the Web 2.0 Expo in New York City this week, a new service called Present.ly launched, which takes aim at Yammer by allowing businesses to quickly create a microblog tool that lets employees send ...

Social media professionals have no doubt heard about Yammer, the corporate-friendly social media darling that Microsoft snapped up in June for a cool $1.2 billion in cash. But do you really know what ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover biz, tech and entrepreneurship. This article is more than 10 years old. Today Microsoft finally announced the worst-kept ...

At UK-based multinational pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), when it comes to getting employees interacting with each other, Yammer is out and Workplace by Facebook is in. GSK, which once ...