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Microsoft Agrees to Acquire GitHub... for $7.5 Billion [Updated]

posted by chromas on Monday June 04 2018, @01:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the versionctlâ €-altâ €-del dept.

takyon writes:

[Update 20180604 @ 14:00 UTC: Acquisition confirmed. Microsoft is paying $7.5 billion in stock. Coverage at Microsoft, Security Week, The Register, and The Verge. Also, see the Microsoft blog post. --martyb]

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub

Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub, and could announce the deal as early as Monday. Bloomberg reports that the software giant has agreed to acquire GitHub, and that the company chose Microsoft partly because of CEO Satya Nadella. Business Insider first reported that Microsoft had been in talks with GitHub recently.

Time to move off GitHub?

Previously: Microsoft Holds Acquisition Talks with Github

An AC also submitted Bloomberg's article.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @03:03PM (6 children)

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday June 04 2018, @03:03PM (#688390) Homepage
    As someone who worked for Nokia, all I can say is "hey - don't forget Nokia!!!!".

    I'm currently involved in a business with one of the very early Skype guys, and to be perfectly honest, thanks MS - without that windfall of cash in his pocket this new business may never have been founded!
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 04 2018, @06:34PM (#688485)

    It's just too bad Nokia's phone division had to die without convincing a competitor to produce a compelling keyboard+discrete baseband alternative first :(

  • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @06:39PM (4 children)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @06:39PM (#688490) Journal

    and to be perfectly honest, thanks MS - without that windfall of cash in his pocket this new business may never have been founded!

    Misdirected thanks. The first to buy Skype was eBay, in September 2005, for $2.6 billion in cash and stock [wikipedia.org].

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    • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @09:21PM (3 children)

      by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Monday June 04 2018, @09:21PM (#688578) Homepage
      Yeah, but the new business was only founded in 2013-ish, so I think it was the 2011 $8.5B kerching that I should be thankful for.
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      • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday June 04 2018, @11:02PM (2 children)

        by Gaaark (41) on Monday June 04 2018, @11:02PM (#688624) Journal

        Care to share the business model/plans...?

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        • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:32AM (1 child)

          by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:32AM (#688741) Homepage
          Every male's dream - a craft brewery!
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          • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:55AM

            by Gaaark (41) on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:55AM (#688800) Journal

            Yuuup!
            Nice! :)

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