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

[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: 2) by c0lo on Monday June 04 2018, @08:39PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 04 2018, @08:39PM (#688557) Journal

    Good point.

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