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Softbank eyes return to Flipkart Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? SUBSCRIBE Thank you for subscribing to Morning Dispatch Well soon meet in your inbox. / Morning Dispatch Flipkart for $4 billion, the two companies could be headed for a $600-700 million reunion. Also in this letter: Interview with RS Prasad on new IT rules Fintech regulations on the anvil? SoftBank in talks to invest $600-700 million in Flipkart Softbank Vision Fundis eyeing a return to Flipkart, having held talks...

What is Stack Overflow, and why did Prosus (Naspers) pay R24.5 billion for it? 3 June 2021 7:16 PM Share This: The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviews Siboniso Nxumalo, a portfolio manager at Old Mutual Investment Group. Naspers-owned Prosus is buying Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion Stack Overflow is a question-and-answer website for professional and enthusiast programmers The website has 100 million users Stack Overflow is not yet profitable Tech giant Prosus is paying $1.8 billion fo...

It’s been a busy week for private equity with Cloudera, Stack Overflow and FireEye coming off the board on Tuesday and Wednesday. Today Blackstone bought media and data company IDG for $1.3 billion. The company had been owned by Oriental Rainbow, LLC, a subsidiary of China Oceanwide Holdings Group, Co. Ltd. With IDG, Blackstone gets […]

Stack Overflow was bought by Prosus for $1.8 billion. What drives people to contribute to the platform? It may be due to career concerns.

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Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A service for programmers, has been acquired by European investment firm Prosus, co-founder Joel Spolsky announced Wednesday, for a price tag of $1.8 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.Why it matters: Stack Overflow's success at enabling expert developers to share tips and shards of working code became the foundation for many novices' knowledge and built a community that helped more advanced practitioners solve tough problems.Get market news worthy of...

Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A service for programmers, has been acquired by European investment firm Prosus, co-founder Joel Spolsky announced Wednesday, for a price tag of $1.8 billion, per the Wall Street Journal.Why it matters: Stack Overflow's success at enabling expert developers to share tips and shards of working code became the foundation for many novices' knowledge and built a community that helped more advanced practitioners solve tough problems.Get market news worthy of...

I didn’t start programming until I was 30. Before that, I was doing all kinds of random things, like working at restaurants and in real estate. My father owns a clothing store here in Mississippi, and I would often work there between jobs. About nine years ago, we wanted to build a website for my dad’s store. We hired some local developers, and I thought the fee—a couple thousand dollars—was crazy. We never got the results we wanted, so I decided to build it myself. I had zero tech know...

SHARE Tech investment firm Prosus NV today said that it will pay $1.8 billion to acquire Stack Overflow, a hugely popular website for developers that boasts more than 100 million users. Stack Overflow is operated by Stack Exchange Inc., a venture-backed startup that has raised more than $150 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. The deal will also see Prosus obtain Stack Overflow for Teams, a cloud-based collaboration service that the startup operates alongsid...

The legendary Q&A website for programmers (and probably one of the most copy-and-pasted sites on the Internet) Stack Overflow is being acquired. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Prosus (the primary shareholder of Chinese gaming mega co/WeChat developer, Tencent) will acquire Stack Overflow for $1.8 billion. Update: Prosus confirms the $1.8 billion number in a press release here.