Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Amazon now officially owns Twitch

Amazon now officially owns Twitch   Amazon announced its intentions to buy gameplay broadcasting service Twitch for $970 million (about £605m, AU$1.1b) in August, and now the deal has become official.The transaction's closure was revealed in a US Securities and Exchange Commission filing from late September.Amazon's bid for Twitch was preceded by months of rumors that Google would be the one to buy Twitch, and it may never be clear exactly what happened among these three companies. Read more >