Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock

After a week of rumors, Microsoft today confirmed that it has acquired GitHub, the popular Git-based code sharing and collaboration service. The price of the acquisition was $7.5 billion in Microsoft stock. GitHub raised $350 millionĀ and we know that the company was valued at about $2 billionĀ in 2015. Former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman (and now … Continue reading Microsoft has acquired GitHub for $7.5B in stock