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According to foreign media reports, Microsoft Corp., the largest software maker in the world, has agreed to acquire Yammer with $ 1.2 billion. Yammer is a kind of enterprise social network service and gradually develops into a social platform. Microsoft can add Yammer’s enterprise social network tools to its enterprise products such as Office and SharePoint. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, the large IT companies are snapping up flexible start-ups, and sometimes acquire before they start their initial public offering. In 2011, they spent a total amount of $ 17.4 billion to acquire software companies. In comparison, in 2009, they spent only 7.155 billion U.S. dollars. Microsoft’s deal with Yammer has followed the trend of recently enterprises acquiring software companies around the social media. Earlier this month, salesforce.com Inc. $ 745 million bought a marketing tool named Buddy Media, and the Oracle Corp. recently has acquired two companies, which respectively are social data analysis firm Vitrue Inc. and media website Collective, Intellect, Inc. Yammer, of which the headquarters is located in San Francisco, was founded in 2008. David Sacks served as the chief executive of the company. He has raised over 140 million U.S. dollars of funds from the risk the companies for Yammer, including Charles River Ventures Inc., and Emergence, Capital Partners, Yammer was adopted by more than 200,000 companies, including the Ford Motor Company, eBay, etc. It provides enterprises with the internal social system which is similar to the Facebook site. In the field, there are two competing companies, respectively being Salesforce.com and Asana Inc., Asana Inc. is primarily founded by Facebook’s co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Last week, the chairman and president of Legend Holdings, Liu Chuanzhi acted as a guest of Sina interview. When being once again asked about Apple and Steve Jobs, Liu said Apple’s brand has told the world that how important and valuable the brand is. Apple’s founder Steve Jobs in the role is much larger than the role of Liu in the Lenovo brand. Jobs cannot be copied, nut Liu can be replicated.” Liu said, the death of Steve Jobs will have a significant impact on Apple. In addition, when answering the question of whether the development direction the Lenovo brand will be closer to IBM or closer to Apple from nettizens, Liu said, “Neither. The road of a company’s own brand does not need to apply. To develop a good brand is to find its own path.” What is the most important thing in the game playing? You may guess gold. You are right. Tory will tell you several good place to make Diablo 3 Power Leveling, D3 Power Leveling and Diablo 3 PowerLeveling.
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