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Microsoft Agrees to Buy Revolution Analytics to Boost Cloud
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Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy startup Revolution Analytics, which makes tools to sift through data, to help the company build up its cloud-services business.
Terms weren’t disclosed. The deal was driven by the growing volumes of data that companies are contending with and the need for more software that can help analyze the information, Microsoft said in a blog post on Friday. Revolution Analytics, based in Mountain View, California, makes a statistics programming language called R that helps analyze data.