Microsoft buys world's largest coding platform GitHub for $7.5 bn
Technology major Microsoft today announced the acquisition of the world's largest collaborative coding platform GitHub for $7.5 billion in an all-stock deal. Founded in 2008, GitHub has never turned profitable till date and was trying for nine months to find a new CEO.  Microsoft's Corporate VP Nat Friedman will become GitHubâs new CEO after the acquisition closes later this year. 