The group recruited popular Twitch streamers/YouTubers like Sky Williams, MaxMoeFoe (above) and Mia Rose to write “Lizard Squad” on their forehead, and tweet them a picture. When enough of these streamers obliged, they relented their attacks on the Jeff Bezos finally gets the big foothold in gaming he's been looking for. Twitch gets the infrastructure … Read more
When news broke that Amazon was buying Twitch, a videogame-themed online streaming site, for nearly $1 billion, the most striking thing in all the media reports—at least to me—was the sheer number of people who will willingly watch other people play The group recruited popular Twitch streamers/YouTubers like Sky Williams, MaxMoeFoe (above) and Mia Rose … Read more
The e-commerce giant is buying streaming platform Twitch Interactive for $970 million in cash as it seeks to take part in video gaming's growth as an online spectator sport. Twitch is a multi-channel online network built for a generation of people who Amazon is in a battle of ecosystems with Apple, Google, and others, and … Read more
Update: Twitch has confirmed that Amazon has purchased it, though the company declined to include a price in its public notes. Google, we now know, lost. Update 2: Amazon, confirming the news itself, pegged the price of UPDATE (4:02pm): It's official: Amazon has purchased Twitch, following months of rumors that Google was looking to buy … Read more
Twitch has become a popular online destination for video game players, who use the website to stream live gameplay of titles across a variety of consoles and formats. More than 55 million unique visitors viewed content generated by more than 1 million In a surprise move, Amazon has bought video-game streaming service Twitch for $970m … Read more
"Broadcasting and watching gameplay is a global phenomenon and Twitch has built a platform that brings together tens of millions of people who watch billions of minutes of games each month," Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. On Monday, that new habit enticed the web giant Amazon to reach a $1.1 … Read more
UPDATE (4:02pm): It's official: Amazon has purchased Twitch, following months of rumors that Google was looking to buy the video streaming company. Amazon says the exact purchase price will be $970 million in cash. SEATTLE—August 25, 2014—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Twitch Interactive, Inc., the leading … Read more
(CNN) — If YouTube is really on the verge of buying video game-streaming website Twitch, there's at least one reason behind the move that's as old as business itself: eliminating the competition. Little known outside the gaming world, Twitch has Twitch is best thought of as a live streaming, gaming-focused version of YouTube. The streamer … Read more
(At eBaum's World, this event is referred to as “The Apocalypse.”) The great wheel of capitalism spins ever forward, and so Variety reports that YouTube is planning to buy Twitch for more than $1 billion. “What is Twitch? In February, we reported that Twitch ranked fourth in peak internet traffic in the U.S., which put … Read more
YouTube has agreed to acquire video game streaming service Twitch for more than $1 billion, sources tell Variety. The all-cash deal is expected to be announced soon, unidentified sources told the entertainment news site. If completed, the acquisition Gamers, be warned — Twitch might soon be thrust under the umbrella of the big, bad Google. … Read more