再掀收购战：微软欲出10亿收购社交网络公司
Published reports say Microsoft is in talks to buy Yammer, a company that develops private social networks for companies.
Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, report that Microsoft could pay more than $1 billion for San Francisco-based Yammer. The networks developed by Yammer allow a company's employees to communicate and collaborate in a manner similar to the way Facebook works with friends.
Shelly Risk, a spokeswoman for privately held Yammer, says the company has no comment on the reports. Representatives for Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., could not be reached for comment late Thursday.
Yammer says its social networks are used by more than 200,000 companies worldwide. The reports Thursday say Microsoft could add Yammer's social-networking functions to its Office software suite.
沪江英语快讯：大公司频掀收购战，Facebook收购Instagram，雀巢收购惠氏，谷歌收购摩托罗拉，现在微软也要加入收购的阵营！根据消息人士透露，微软此次想要收购的Yammer公司是一家社交网络公司，为公司中的员工提供交际交流平台，其运作模式类似于Facebook给朋友间提供的那种社交平台。据称，微软欲为此次收购出资10亿美元！Yammer公司的一位发言人表示对此事暂不发表评论。Yammer公司目前为全球超过20万家公司提供服务，如果被微软收购后，其功能将有可能被合并到微软的Office软件中。
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