Microsoft
reportedly buys code-sharing site GitHub
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The developer platform GitHub, which is widely used for storing, sharing, and collaborating on code, will apparently soon be a
Microsoft company.
Microsoft has
reportedly acquired the San Francisco-based hosting service and might announce the deal as soon as Monday, a
Bloomberg report said, according to "people familiar with the matter."
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Murmurs about the acquisition bubbled up late last week as the
CEO-less GitHub was
reportedly in talks with
Microsoft about a sale. Its co-founder, Tom Preston-Werner,
resigned in 2014 after harassment allegations surfaced.
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