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Microsoft’s fiscal 2019 already ranks among its biggest years for acquisition spending

Just four months into Microsoft’s fiscal year, the company has spent more on acquisitions than it has in many entire… Read More

GitHub recovering after a widespread outage caused by networking and database issues

Software teams were stymied late Sunday and early Monday by a widespread GitHub outage that prevented developers from using the… Read More

European regulators sign off on Microsoft’s $7.5B acquisition of GitHub

Microsoft’s deal to buy GitHub for $7.5 billion cleared a major regulatory hurdle Friday. The European Commission, the regulatory arm of… Read More

GitHub introduces GitHub Actions to further automate the art of software development

GitHub isn’t content with being the storage locker for your code: it thinks it has come up with a better… Read More

As it awaits the close of the Microsoft deal, GitHub strikes partnership deal with Google Cloud

GitHub tried to put worries about its independence under Microsoft to rest Thursday, announcing a partnership with Google Cloud that… Read More

Lessons learned from LinkedIn: How Microsoft’s biggest buy will influence $7.5B GitHub acquisition

Microsoft has learned a few lessons from the $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn that executives say they’re applying to the… Read More

Visualizing the cloud: Time-lapse takeaways from the GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Visual strategist Guillaume Wiatr has become a mainstay at GeekWire conferences, partnering with us to sketch out drawings and notes… Read More

With Microsoft deal pending, GitHub launches new educational package for students

GitHub, the software development platform that recently agreed to be acquired by Microsoft for $7.5 billion, is expanding its services… Read More

Microsoft’s GitHub gamble: Tech giant ready to spend years winning over critics of $7.5B deal

Will Octocat get along with Ninja Cat? GitHub co-founder Chris Wanstrath laughed in an interview this week as he pondered… Read More

TLDR: Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub, tech for women’s safety, Alexa & Google Assistant coming to Xbox

[Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube,… Read More

Here’s where Microsoft’s GitHub acquisition ranks among the tech giant’s largest deals

Bigger than Nokia and Minecraft, smaller than LinkedIn and Skype. And nowhere near Yahoo, but that doesn’t count because it… Read More

Developers and cloud rivals will be watching Microsoft’s plans for Azure and GitHub very closely

It’s probably the central question surrounding Microsoft’s $7.5 billion purchase of coding repository GitHub: how will the owner of the… Read More

Microsoft agrees to buy GitHub for $7.5B, vows to let popular coding site operate independently

Microsoft has agreed to pay $7.5 billion in stock to acquire GitHub, giving the Redmond tech giant new inroads to… Read More

Why would Microsoft want GitHub? Developers, developers, developers ― and the cloud

Post updated on Monday morning, after Microsoft announced its agreement to acquire GitHub. Microsoft has long understood the power that… Read More

Microsoft reaches deal to buy GitHub; announcement could come Monday, report says

Update, Monday morning: Microsoft confirmed the deal, announcing an agreement to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Microsoft has… Read More

Report: Microsoft has talked with GitHub about possible acquisition

Microsoft and GitHub have talked in recent weeks about a possible acquisition of the popular software development platform by the… Read More

The largest DDoS attack yet recorded staggered Github on Wednesday

Web companies are starting to get pretty good at deflecting denial of service attacks, and Github and Akamai largely fended… Read More

Microsoft refines Azure’s motion-detection service and offers DIY usage-tracking project

Microsoft has upgraded the motion-detection features of Azure Media Services, the company said in a blog post today. Rather than detecting motion… Read More

GitHub adds emoji reactions to help developers keep their comments on track

An emoji might not be worth a thousand words, but it can do a better job than words at getting… Read More

New Donald Trump programming language seeks to make programming great again

A team of software engineers at Rice University has introduced a new programming language called TrumpScript. Based on Python, the… Read More

Microsoft partners with GitHub to distribute Visual Studio to students

GitHub, the popular code hosting service, will include Microsoft’s Visual Studio Community 2013 in the GitHub Student Developer Pack, distributing Microsoft’s… Read More