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Behind Microsoft’s Yammer acquisition

The spending spree on social business upstarts lays bare five major trends transforming enterprise software. By Ryan Holmes, contributor FORTUNE — Microsoft is snatching up business social networking tool Yammer - a.k.a Facebook for the workplace - for $1.2 billion.

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