Sentences with phrase «yammering in»

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Speaking on stage at the Silicon Valley Open Doors Conference he called Pebble the fastest - growing start - up he's ever backed, a group that includes Twitter and Yammer, which Microsoft bought in 2012 for $ 1.2 billion.

Sacks struck again in 2008, founding enterprise - focused social network Yammer, which he sold to Microsoft four years later for $ 1.2 billion.

I've finally figured out why I like it so much, and why other apps like Hicphat and even Yammer are going to be the defacto messaging tools in business over the next 5 - 10 years.

It might seem weird to communicate in real - time with an entire team in an app like Slack or Yammer, but it is more efficient and matches how the workplace has changed.

Slack faces plenty of competition in business messaging services, including Yammer, acquired by Microsoft, and Atlassian's HipChat.

I don't know any CEO who doesn't want to know more about what's happening in their organization, who doesn't want to get more detail on what's happening in the market, and tools like Yammer really provide that.

Collaboration software tools like Yammer won't replace quick, in - person meetings.

In addition starting enterprise social networking service Yammer — which was bought by Microsoft last year for $ 1.2 billion — Sacks launched genealogy website Geni in 200In addition starting enterprise social networking service Yammer — which was bought by Microsoft last year for $ 1.2 billion — Sacks launched genealogy website Geni in 200in 2006.

As a foundation, we have found a variety of communication tools that support this, such as having a company message board (Yammer), virtual office space (Sococo), file sharing and collaboration (Box and Google Drive), project management (Pivotal Tracker and Slack), web / video conference (join.me), in addition to IM and email.

Facebook launched Workplace in October as a way to burst into the enterprise market and compete with popular business communication software like Hipchat, Yammer and, most notably, Slack.

Over the past 10 years startups like Dropbox, Mint (sold to Intuit for $ 170m), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 b), Fitbit (went public in June 2015), PowerSet (sold to Microsoft for $ 100m), Clicker (sold to CNET for $ 100m), Trello (sold to Atlassian for $ 425m), TrueCar (raised $ 70m in its 2014 IPO), and Cafe X (raised $ 5m) have presented at our event — but 97 % of the people at the event were not allowed to invest in them.

In 2013, it would have been very difficult to sell to Yammer, with a long sales cycle to boot.

In September 2013, Slack's Growth Score was just shy of Yammer's, even though they were the new kids on the block.

From that perspective, it makes sense for an outbound sales rep to go all in on selling to Yammer, because the risk of investing their time could well be worth the reward.

Arrington left TechCrunch in 2011 and went on to start CrunchFund, which has invested in big - name startups such as Uber, Airbnb and Yammer.

Hamid has a proven track record of investing in many of the leading enterprise startups of the last decade — including early investments in Slack, Box, Yammer, Intercom and Netskope, where he also served on the board of directors.

Hamid has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most disruptive software companies of recent times including Slack, Box, Yammer (acquired by Microsoft), Intercom and Netskope.

The funding was led by a group of investors including Scott Banister, an early investor in PayPal; Alan Braverman, co-founder of Yammer; David Jeske, former director of engineering at Google and Vikas Taneja, senior partner and MD of The Boston Consulting Group.

Other investors in the Multicoin fundraising round include David Sacks, the first chief operating officer of PayPal and founder of enterprise social network Yammer, and Elad Gil, co-founder of genomic testing company Color Genomics, Samani told Reuters.

Kris Gale is a recognized leader in building and scaling engineering teams and was part of the founding engineering team at Yammer.

Over the past 10 years, startups such as Dropbox, Fitbit (went public in June 2015), Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $ 1.2 billion) and TrueCar (went public in 2014) have presented at Calacanis» events.

In their discussion they cover Zenefits» meteoric rise as the fastest growing SaaS company ever (grown to 800 employees in two years) with no plans to slow down, why «the Salesforce for employment» is an interesting analogy for the Zenefits business, how Andreessen Horowitz was a huge help in landing David Sacks (former Yammer Founder / CEO) as COO, how Jason switched his companies to Zenefits last year & is saving huge $ $ — and much morIn their discussion they cover Zenefits» meteoric rise as the fastest growing SaaS company ever (grown to 800 employees in two years) with no plans to slow down, why «the Salesforce for employment» is an interesting analogy for the Zenefits business, how Andreessen Horowitz was a huge help in landing David Sacks (former Yammer Founder / CEO) as COO, how Jason switched his companies to Zenefits last year & is saving huge $ $ — and much morin two years) with no plans to slow down, why «the Salesforce for employment» is an interesting analogy for the Zenefits business, how Andreessen Horowitz was a huge help in landing David Sacks (former Yammer Founder / CEO) as COO, how Jason switched his companies to Zenefits last year & is saving huge $ $ — and much morin landing David Sacks (former Yammer Founder / CEO) as COO, how Jason switched his companies to Zenefits last year & is saving huge $ $ — and much more!

For once, in the spirit of Habakkuk, let all the earth keep silent and let us stop yammering about what God does or does not intend, except the salvation of the world.

The diskette was duly handed over, and back in my hotel room I browsed through the upcoming speeches, paying particular attention to what the Polish pope would say when he came to the Holocaust Memorial at Yad Vashem — a meeting about which there had been considerable controversy, involving considerable yammering.

The 70 % is what believers having abortion represent in the entire earth's populace that you've been yammering all along.

You might want to look for who is really responsible for what is going on in the Middle East, as opposed to some shallow and lame yammering about Muslms and Christians.

The yammering Knicks were shut out in Chicago, where the revived Bulls and their beleaguered (briefly) star tied the Eastern title series

Another topic that fans have been yammering about is our wage structure: Yes, it is one of the highest in the world (among club playing various sports).

I've yammered about kids and guns in this space several times before, and yet the subject only continues to further alarm me.

The endlessly yammering superhero Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) stages for himself a similar suicide in the opening moments of the second movie to bear his name.

An exclamation point sprouts from the heads of alerted enemies; lengthy codec conversations and cinematic sequences punctuate the action; bosses yammer on and on about political ideologies before dueling you to the death; and you can even hide in boxes to stay hidden from foes.

He yammers about the actors and story a bit, but doesn't say anything really interesting until he starts talking about shooting in 3D in Moscow, delaying production due to a natural disaster, and the effects.

Marvel's first superteam, that yammering surrogate family of Silver Age aberrations, has now appeared in as many features as it has members, and each film is embarrassing in its own special way.

Sega yammers on about sales, Takahashi leaves Hudson and LucasArts comes clean in this week's Industry Chatter.

And yet, it works, not unlike The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, because we meet it halfway with our own awareness of the forebears Russell lightly subverts (whether underdog sports movies, screwball comedies or, now, Scorsese's American crime epics), and we're willing to fill in the blanks to enjoy trappings like Bale finessing Irving's «rather elaborate» combover or Lawrence yammering Rosalyn's way into getting what she wants.

The Caveman's Valentine is a fine and a courageous film, crazy enough to suggest that the delirious yammering of an idiot savant is the best and truest paladin of order in the chaos of Eliot's rat's alley wasteland.

Yet for all the yammering of politicians about federal meddling and overreach in the realm of academic standards, nearly as many Americans (41 percent) would have the federal government take the lead in «setting educational standards for what students should know» as would assign that role to the states (43 percent).

There have been interesting experiments in using Facebook to deliver courses, or parts of courses and social learning tools such as Twitter and Yammer were often bolted into learning architectures in organizations.

RH: Adam, you had substantial success with Yammer, a previous tech venture that you founded in 2008.

Social media applications like Yammer also go a long way to promote responsible and safe discourse in an environment that educators can manage.

As the screen shot below shows, all one has to do is embed the appropriate links to the digital classroom, or direct students to these links in the Yammer feed.

Twenty years later I would go on to co-found Yammer, the first enterprise social network, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft in 2012.

«The master schedule is, in many ways, the blueprint of a school — but a Rubik's Cube of programs, people, and events can make the scheduling process overwhelming and time - consuming for school leaders,» said Abl Founder and CEO Adam Pisoni, who previously served as CTO and Co-Founder of Yammer.

People on my Facebook know I write, but I can't just keep yammering about my books to people who are my personal friends and co-workers in the entertainment industry.

Turns out I'm more than happy to bang away at a keyboard or yammer into the microphone for a podcast (which we will hopefully get back too soon), but shooting video while trying to read a comic on a tablet, followed by trying to edit and convert the resulting video, was a lot to try and conquer as a first timer in one go.

All of this pretensions yammering from bloggers (not you) and analysts (not you) which try to highlight «ecosystem» as the key to success in the hand held computing space is ignorant and confused.

Most of the time, if there needs to be a lot of exposition, it's done in a cinematic instead of forcing the player to sit and watch two talking heads on a gray / green background yammer for 15 minutes.

It is official, Microsoft will acquire Yammer, a leading provider of enterprise social networks, for $ 1.2 billion in cash.

The characters are voice - acted but speak in a garbled gibberish; adorable in it's way and entirely apt for the tone of the game, but those hoping for a more serious framing with full voice - acting may find themselves feeling patronized by the indiscernible yammering.

Also these words, from the «fringe» of the Studio School, are a response to my endless yammering about Brancaster in general: