Microsoft has announced its intention to acquire Yammer
for $1.2 billion in cash. The company will be part of the Microsoft
Office Division and will be headed by the division President Kurt
DelBene.
For those who are not aware, Yammer is an enterprise social
networking service. Think of it as Facebook for the corporations. The
company was started four years ago and currently has 5 million corporate
users, which includes employees from 85 percent of the Fortune 500
companies.
We already know everything there is to know about the upcoming iOS 6 and let’s face it – it’s not going to be the jump Apple is trying to convince us it is. Everything is pretty much the same, with a few tweaks here and there, an overdue Facebook integration and extended Siri functionality. The major new feature with the iOS 6 is the new Maps app, now with TomTom map data and, of course, the addition of navigation. Well, people do use Siri and navigation for sure, but those people have also been using this same tired iOS interface for 6 years now. They need something new, refreshing and they are not getting it this year. Joost van der Ree published a few inspiring ideas that could easily fit into iOS, boosting the user experience along the way. Some of them are so obvious that makes you wonder why Apple didn’t come up with them in the first place. But maybe they have?
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