Microsoft is ready to buy Yammer, the social messaging service for businesses, for anything close to a billion dollars, at least according to Bloomberg.
Yammer is a social network service company, primarily used in business for online collaboration among the various employees of the same company.
The agreement between Microsoft and should be completed by Yammer as early as tomorrow, if the purchase goes through, likely that this service will be implemented in Windows Phone 8, which together with integration of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Skype probably, will the future OS to be a perfect instrument of communication.
For those interested, in Windows Phone marketplace you can find the official Yammer app.