Tech News: Amazon Buys Twitch for US$1bn

A bit of a surprise on Monday, August 25, as Amazon purchased the video game streaming platform Twitch Interactive for $970 million in cash, as it broadcast to all and sundry that it is seriously ambitious about expanding its presence in gaming, according to Business […]

Tech News: Google Buys Twitch

Tech News: Google Buys Twitch

This Monday, May 19, 2014, the big gossip was the acquisition by Google – via its Youtube.com arm – for a relative bargain fee of US$1bn, the video game-streaming company Twitch Interactive. So far they’re keeping mum about it, but it’s already way bigger than Hulu […]