{"id":32941,"date":"2018-06-03T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T10:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=32941"},"modified":"2018-06-03T10:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T10:11:01","slug":"microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-software-developer-platform-github","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-software-developer-platform-github\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in talks to acquire software developer platform GitHub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talks on Microsoft\u2019s plan to acquire software developer platform GitHub has intensified in the past few week, the Business Insider reported.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition talks turning serious mark a change of strategy as just six months ago GitHub appeared committed to staying independent, the report said on Friday citing people close to the companies.<\/p>\n<p>The San Francisco, California-headquartered GitHub has more than 23 million individual users in more than 1.5 million organisations. Software developers use the tools of the privately-held company to store code, keep track of updates and discuss issues.<\/p>\n<p>According to a CNBC report, the talks of acquisition progressed from a planned joint marketing partnership valued around $35 million. GitHub was last valued at $2 billion in its last funding round in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Based on a price that was floated last year, the report said that acquiring GitHub could cost Microsoft $5 billion or more &#8211; more than what Microsoft currently wanted to pay.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks on Microsoft\u2019s plan to acquire software developer platform GitHub has intensified in the past few week, the Business Insider reported. The acquisition talks turning serious mark a change of strategy as just six months ago GitHub appeared committed to staying independent, the report said on Friday citing people close to the companies. The San [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32943,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32941\/revisions\/32943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}