Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B deal
Microsoft Corp said June 4 that it agreed to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The deal is expected to close by the end of the calendar year. GitHub, of San Francisco, is a software development platform where more than more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate. GitHub has raised $350 million in funding, crunchbase said. Investors include Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz and Thrive Capital.
4 June 2018•4 mins read
