Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that it was retiring the Yammer Enterprise plan and integrating its features into Office 365 instead. The move comes some four years after Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 billion. Microsoft will retire the standalone Yammer Enterprise plan on January 1, 2017, for all volume licensing and direct channels. July 1, 2017, will ...

Virtual reality (VR) has seemingly passed Apple Inc. iPhone owners by, as the likes of Samsung Electronic Co. Ltd.’s Gear VR and Google Inc.’s Cardboard have dominated the mobile VR space. That drought is about to end. A Boulder, CO-based company you may never heard of, Occipital Inc., has just launched a developer kit that enables ...

Enterprise Software-as-a-Service startup Blackline Inc. is reported to be preparing for an initial public offering (IPO). According to Reuters, the float, which could happen as soon as October, would value the company at over $1 billion with BlackLine hiring investment bank Goldman Sachs Group to lead the offering. Founded in 2001, Blackline offers cloud-based software ...

Microsoft Corp. is diving deeper into the chip business in hopes of boosting its prospects in artificial intelligence. The software giant is continuing its development of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) to improve performance and provide new capabilities in the data center that started back in 2011 under the name of Project Catapult. The company displayed its ...

Big Data analytics firm Palantir Technologies Inc. is being sued by the U.S. Department of Labor on the grounds that it discriminates against Asian job candidates. The suit alleges that the company systematically rejected Asian applicants in the resume screening and telephone interview phases even when they were as qualified as white applicants. Allegations of employment discrimination ...

Interest in the potential acquisition of Twitter Inc. continues to rise with a new report Monday claiming that Walt Disney Co. is also considering putting forward a bid for the company. Bloomberg broke the news, quoting people familiar with the matter as saying that that Disney has hired a financial adviser to evaluate a possible ...

In case you missed the news over the weekend, the company formerly known as Snapchat Inc., now simply known as Snap Inc., has entered the hardware game with a new pair of connected sunglasses by the name of “Spectacles” that allows users to take 10 seconds of video. The pair of glasses, which includes integrated video, ...

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) may finally have some competition with a number of major global banks signing on with Ripple Labs Inc. to found a new group that will support a new global transfer system based on Ripple’s blockchain platform. Founding members of the Global Payments Steering Group (GPSG) are Bank ...

The drought in successful tech initial public offerings (IPOs) may be officially over as shares in cloud information technology management software firm Apptio Inc. surged on their debut Friday on the Nasdaq exchange. Shares in Apptio, offered at $16, surged as high as $24.60 before ending the day at $22.55, up almost 41 percent. Goldman, ...

Google Inc. launched its virtual reality (VR) software development kit (SDK) out of beta Thursday with support for its Daydream VR platform. The new official release adds native integration in Google’s VR platform for the Unity game development platform enabling Daydream developers to take full advantage of all of Unity’s optimizations in VR rendering, along ...