Confirmed! Microsoft is Buying GitHub for $5 Billion

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AP
Abhishek Prakash
Jun 4, 2018

Bloomberg has confirmed the deal of Microsoft buying out GitHub, the largest software developer’s community with more than 23 million individual developers from over a million organizations worldwide at $5 Billion

AP

Abhishek Prakash

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