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Yammer Makes Its First Acquisition: OneDrum

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 11 at 12:02 pm PT

Fresh off an $85 million round of new funding, the social enterprise start-up will acquire a company that makes Microsoft Office more collaborative. Let the comparisons to Jive begin.

Collaboration Start-Up Atlassian Acquires HipChat

Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 7 at 3:30 am PT

The fast-growing collaboration platform of choice for software developers goes real-time.

Yammer Adds SAP to the List of Business Software It Supports

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on February 23 at 6:29 am PT

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could follow an SAP record as easily as you follow your friends on Facebook? Yammer has made it happen.

Newly Public Jive Beats the Street

Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 7 at 5:06 pm PT

Jive’s first quarter as a public company comes out pretty good.

Marc Benioff Brings His Social Cloud Message to New York

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 30, 2011 at 4:58 am PT

The Salesforce.com CEO will give a keynote speech in New York later this morning. Expect him to revisit his favorite subject, the social enterprise, and a new one, the social marketing cloud.

Salesforce Is Growing, But Slower Than Analysts Thought It Would

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 17, 2011 at 3:54 pm PT

Salesforce is growing, but not fast enough for the expectations of Wall Street analysts. Its shares are getting whacked.

Yammer Now Works With Box.net and Five Other Cloud Services

Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 9, 2011 at 5:48 am PT

The quiet but fast-growing social enterprise software player adds six cloud services to its activity streams, but more importantly turns on a new activity stream feature.

Former Sun CEO Schwartz Joins Board of Moxie Software

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 26, 2011 at 4:50 am PT

Jonathan Schwartz, the CEO who saw Sun Microsystems through to its acquisition by Oracle, isn’t sitting still. He has taken three board seats and runs a health-focused start-up.

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Yammer’s New Sales VP Comes From Salesforce.com

Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 12, 2011 at 2:03 pm PT

Social enterprise software player Yammer named David Obrand as its vice president for global sales. What makes it all the more interesting is where Obrand last worked: Salesforce.com, the company behind Yammer’s main market rival, Chatter. Obrand had been vice president of vertical sales at Salesforce, and spent 10 years there.

Seven Questions for Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.net

Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on September 28, 2011 at 3:00 pm PT

Box.net’s CEO talks about the company’s new cloud-based data sharing service for enterprises and about the money he’s raising from the likes of Salesforce.com.