(GeekWire Chart) Microsoft’s 2019 fiscal year was one of its busiest ever for acquisitions, led by its $7.5 billion GitHub deal. The tech giant spent a total of $9.1 billion on 20 acquisitions in its 2019 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to its newly released annual report. GeekWire research shows that 2019 ranks […]
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GitHub became the latest technology company to come under fire for its supporting role in the Trump administration’s immigration clampdown Wednesday, with employees of the Microsoft-owned company demanding Chief Executive Nat Friedman cancel a $200,000 contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In an open letter on Twitter, employees of the cloud-based service for
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When engineer Seth Vargo found that a company using his open-source code worked with US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, he pulled the code off Github. The company, enterprise software maker Chef, found that, without the code, its business ground to a halt. Vargo had worked for the Seattle-based company, but he didn’t know about the
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A big fingerprint? Or just a very close photo? GATHER ROUND EVERYONE, it’s time to talk about everyone’s favourite topic: internet authentication protocols. Y’see, GitHub has just had an upgrade, allowing its members to log in with the new(er) and shiny(er) Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard. While the site did previously support two-factor authentication (2FA)
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Microsoft-owned GitHub, which is an open source software development platform was attacked by hackers recently and here is an American cyber security company, Malwarebytes, that has published a report stating how the cyber-attacks took place. The company stated that every day several new e-commerce websites have fallen into the hands of one of the Magecart
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Microsoft is reportedly in acquisition talks with GitHub, according to sources privy to the matter. Based on the Bloomberg report, the deal to purchase one of the biggest code repository companies will be announced as early as Monday. Founded in 2008, GitHub was a popular hosting site of codes, projects, and documentation for several developers
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