GitHub Inc. , code-repository company popular with a lot of software developers is acquired by Microsoft Corp. for $7.5 billion.
GitHub is an open-source platform for programmers. Lots of companies are using it for collaborations and social networking purposes also. The world's leading software development platform, GitHub enables web-based hosting service for version control using Git. It offers all of the distributed version control and source code management functionality of Git.
Github is founded in 2008 and was last valued at $2 billion in 2015.
