Microsoft has completed its acquisition of open-source code repository GitHub in a deal valued at $7.5 billion, the companies said Friday. GitHub is used by more than 28 million developers to ...

There is also an internal rumor at GitHub that a Microsoft executive could be in the running for the CEO job, with or without an acquisition by the software giant. That person is said to be Nat ...

The deal sparked chatter and criticism from the web-developer community, but so far, computational biologists are giving Microsoft and GitHub the benefit of the doubt—and sticking with the popular ...

[Nat Friedman], CEO of GitHub (owned by Microsoft), announced the move recently on the GitHub blog. So what motivated the acquisition, and what changes are we likely to see as a result of it?

The software and technology giant named a new CHRO on Wednesday and elevated its former CHRO into a new leadership position.

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Satya Nadella marked a decade as Microsoft CEO this year, having taken the reins in February 2014 and swiftly transforming the tech giant. Under his leadership, Microsoft embraced cloud computing ...

For Sun Microsystems, which was in decline and saddled with loads of debt at the time, an acquisition was a lifeline. 19. Microsoft bought GitHub in 2019 for $7.5 billion. For Microsoft ...

In June, Microsoft announced its blockbuster agreement to acquire open-source code repository GitHub for $7.5 billion. The acquisition, which closed in October, brought Microsoft a platform used ...

Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is exposing the contents of more than 20,000 private GitHub repositories from companies including Google, Intel, Huawei, PayPal, IBM, Tencent and, ironically, ...

At this point, everyone has already heard that Microsoft is buying GitHub. Acquisitions of this scale take time, but most expect everything to be official by 2019. The general opinion online seems ...

Thousands of once-public GitHub repositories from some of the world’s biggest companies are affected, including Microsoft’s, according to new findings from Lasso, an Israeli cybersecurity ...