Amazon Buys Twitch for $970 Million

[WYP]

Unlike what previous rumors suggested, Amazon has purchased Twitch for just under $1 Billion and not Google like previously though.

Read more about Amazon's Acquisition of Twitch here

 

[Wraith]

Arh nads! I'll just delete my write up. :lol: Nice catch WYP.

 

[WYP]

Arh nads! I'll just delete my write up. :lol: Nice catch WYP.

Look at what I just found! A little teaser for you guys on my next article

 

[Wraith]

That is fo shizzle a nice looking board!

 

[MadShadow]

Look at what I just found! A little teaser for you guys on my next article

As, so this is what Tom is putting in Orca

 

[Cru]

little update on the topic, 30 minute stream explaining some things
http://www.twitch.tv/twitch/c/4987829

 

[RamboOC]

And now it turns out that google was actually going to buy twitch but they have backed out
Source: http://www.kitguru.net/channel/gene...-out-of-twitch-deal-due-to-anti-trust-issues/

Over the last few months there were plenty of rumors floating around suggesting that Google buying Twitch was practically a done deal. However, it turns out that Google supposedly backed out due to anti trust issues, thus paving the way for Amazon to snap up the streaming service for $970 million.
According to Forbes, the Google deal was never finalized thanks to the potential for anti-trust issues to come up due to the company already owning YouTube, the largest content streaming site around today. In addition, the two companies couldn’t agree on a ‘break up’ fee should the deal fall through.

 

[barnsley]

If amazon leave it alone (excluding giving Twitch more servers) it'd be nice. Will they do that? I doubt it .

 

[yassarikhan786]

I hope there's no Amazon Prime/Twitch mash-up

 

[NeverBackDown]

Ya i read this earlier. It has potential to get better but a lot more to get worse.