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Yammer's CEO Is About To Sell For $1 Billion To Microsoft, And Then Throw...
People inside Yammer have been talking all week about an acquisition by Microsoft. Only late Wednesday did word start leaking outside the company. Now Bloomberg is reporting that the parties are...
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The Guy Who Might Sell His Company To Microsoft For $1B Says, 'Let Him Eat...
"Let him eat cake." That's how the invitation reads to Yammer CEO David Sacks's ridiculous, over-the-top party in the $125 million Fleur de Lys mansion in LA this weekend. It's an obvious reference to...
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Microsoft's Big Monday Event Could Be The Yammer Deal (MSFT)
Since the only people talking about Microsoft buying Yammer are overly chatty Yammer employees, we're left to speculate. So here goes some speculation! Right now, there are two HUGE things Microsoft...
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This One Crazy Photo Tells You Everything You Need To Know About The Tech...
Rapper Snoop Dogg posted a photo of himself with Yammer CEO David Sacks and two other guests at Sacks's 40th birthday party, held Saturday night at the $125 million Fleur de Lys mansion in Los...
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Meet The Yammer CEO Who Just Made Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Selling To...
Microsoft just bought Yammer, the social-enterprise startup David Sacks founded four years ago, for $1.2 billion. Sacks is famous in Silicon Valley circles, but most have yet to hear of him. Here's a...
View ArticleThis Investor Made Over $200 Million On The Yammer Deal
George Zachary, a general partner at Charles River Ventures which was one of the first investors in Yammer, told Bloomberg West in an interview on Monday that he expects Yammer's founder and CEO David...
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David Sacks Just Made Three Big Promises To Yammer Customers (MSFT)
Yammer founder David Sacks sent an email to Yammer customers today filled with vows for the future. He promised that the free version wasn't going away and that Microsoft would continue to improve it....
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Marc Benioff, Lars Dalgaard, and David Sacks Are About To Do Battle, Says VC...
Get ready for a fight between Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff, Lars Dalgaard of SAP's SuccessFactors, and Yammer's David Sacks. "The cloud titans are lining up for battle," Jason Green, partner at VC...
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A Lesson From Yammer: Here's How You Get Someone To Pay You $1 Billion (MSFT)
The tech world was shocked last month that Microsoft paid Yammer a whopping $1.2 billion. In February, Yammer raised $85 million at a valuation of about half of that. Analysts estimate Yammer's...
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Yammer's David Sacks: The Internet Is STILL Over (MSFT)
Yammer CEO David Sacks ruffled a lot of feathers in the tech industry when he wrote on his Facebook page that Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end. Today he dug in and explained his...
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Yammer CEO: Here's Why I Moved My Company To Silicon Valley
In July 2009, things were going pretty well for Yammer, then a small enterprise-software startup based in Los Angeles. But something was missing. Yammer CEO David Sacks, who had moved to Los Angeles...
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This Is Microsoft? Check Out The Macs, Hacks, And Groovy Slacks (MSFT)
Yammer is a fun, funky place to work and Microsoft won't change that, cofounder and CEO David Sacks told Business Insider. And he's got the pictures to prove it. Take a look at life at Yammer as part...
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After Declaring Silicon Valley Over, Yammer CEO David Sacks Is Backing A New...
David Sacks, the CEO of Yammer, recently sold his company to Microsoft and then declared that "Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end." He recently defended that position in an interview...
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Yammer, Microsoft's 'Golden Egg,' Has Moved Into A Gorgeous New Headquarters...
On Monday, Yammer, the enterprise-collaboration startup Microsoft bought for $1.2 billion last year, moved from its longtime home in San Francisco's SoMa district to a new headquarters in 1355 Market,...
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How 15 Tech Tycoons Spend Their Fortunes
If you'd founded a tech company worth billions of dollars, what would you do with your cash?That's a high-class problem faced by the moguls on this list.Naturally, many of them buy expensive things,...
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Microsoft Has Already Broken A Key Promise About Yammer's Independence (MSFT)
When Microsoft agreed to buy Yammer for $1.2 billion last summer, the companies emphasized one key point: The enterprise social network's team would stay in San Francisco and continue to report to CEO...
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Marissa Mayer And David Sacks Are Backing San Francisco's Bison
San Francisco's Golden Gate Park has long featured a herd of bison in their own fenced-in paddock.Apparently Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Yammer CEO David Sacks are fans. They and their spouses have...
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For A Guy Who Said Silicon Valley Is Over, Yammer's CEO Sure Is Investing In...
In August, Yammer CEO David Sacks raised a storm when he wrote on Facebook that "Silicon Valley as we know it may be coming to an end."Since he'd just sold Yammer to Microsoft for $1.2 billion, people...
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'This Isn't Yammer Anymore' (MSFT)
Yammer CEO David Sacks will shortly face a bunch of angry employees with a lot of questions about the Microsoft-owned company's recent layoffs.TechCrunch reported Thursday that Yammer, a maker of...
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There's Another Big Change At Yammer That Employees Don't Know About (MSFT)
Starting July 1—the beginning of Microsoft's fiscal year—Yammer salespeople won't be Yammer salespeople any more, Business Insider has learned.They'll be Microsoft salespeople.The social-collaboration...
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