[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.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @03:03PM (6 children)
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
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)
Misdirected thanks. The first to buy Skype was eBay, in September 2005, for $2.6 billion in cash and stock [wikipedia.org].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday June 04 2018, @09:21PM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Monday June 04 2018, @11:02PM (2 children)
Care to share the business model/plans...?
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday June 05 2018, @06:32AM (1 child)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 05 2018, @10:55AM
Yuuup!
Nice! :)
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