A richer man

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Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and chief executive officer at GitHub Inc., speaks during the 2015 Bloomberg Technology Conference in San Francisco in June 2015. Microsoft agreed earlier this week to buy the platform for developer collaboration in a $7.5 billion deal.

Microsoft announced Monday that it will buy GitHub, the popular coding platform where developers share and collaborate on projects, for $7.5 billion worth of Microsoft stock.






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