Software : Netflix adds Disney and Pixar movies streaming catalogue in UK and Ireland

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Netflix adds Disney and Pixar movies streaming catalogue in UK and Ireland Posted: Classic Disney movies like Wall-E, Pirates of the Caribbean and Dumbo are now available to stream for Netflix customers in the UK and Ireland. The deal also sees The Chronicles of Narnia films, Ratatouille, Robin Hood, The Aristocats and The Sword in the Stone hit the service with plenty more to come in the coming months. Next up will be titles like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, War Horse and The Help, while next year Avenger's Assemble, John Carter, and The Muppets will arrive on the service. The reason for the delay in some movies hitting the service is Disney's existing deal with Sky and the dedicated Sky Movies Disney Channel. 'Incredible variety' As it currently stands, Disney movies appear exclusively on Sky's channel six months after their cinematic release. A year later those titles will be officially available on Netflix. "We are delighted to be able to offer our members an incredible variety of fantastic family films, from recent hits like Marvel's Avengers Assemble to beloved classics like Mary Poppins," said Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos. "We aim to make Netflix better all the time and hope members enjoy the rich offering of films we are making available from the Disney studios."

Microsoft sees Yammer sales skyrocket Posted: Microsoft is claiming its $1.2 billion acquisition of enterprise social collaboration platform Yammer eight months ago has started to pay off. Writing in a company blogpost, the Microsoft Office team say Yammer's sales grew 259% year-on-year in its most recent quarter. It added 312 customers in March, which marked the company's "best month to-date in terms of user engagement". The blogpost says that customers have reacted encouragingly to the ability to use Office 365 and Yammer together. The company has integrated the Office 365 and Yammer teams and concentrated on producing regular updates of the relevant software. Their current efforts are focused on identity, content and messaging. Microsoft says it plans to focusing on marketing the platform this year and investing "aggressively" in the business by hiring in sales, engineering, customer engagement and marketing. In a recent interview with TRPro, Yammer chief Adam Pisoni emphasised the importance of frequent updates, describing Yammer as "not a product with a set of features" but a "set of experiments at any given time". Yammer had about 5 million corporate users when Microsoft bought the company in June 2012. In February, the software giant said the number had grown to 7 million. Microsoft's Business Division, which includes Yammer, saw sales rise 8% year-on-year to $6.32 billion in its most recent quarter. Market watcher IDC has predicted that the social collaboration market will grow 43% annually to reach $4.5 billion by 2016.

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