Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Amazon Announces Purchase of Twitch by 735 million – Reuters

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MADRID, Aug 26 (Portaltic / EP) -.

Amazon.com announced Monday that it has reached an agreement for purchase Twitch , the platform streaming of video games, for $ 970 million (about 735 million euros), after phonecalls rumors for months that would be bought by Google.

The announcement of the acquisition agreement was announced by Amazon itself via an official statement, where CEO Jeff Bezos explained that both Amazon and Twitch “share the p reoccupation by customers ” and “hope to learn from them [Twitch] and help them advance faster in creating New services for the gaming community. “

Rumors acquisition platform by Google have sounded strong from the last May and even came to filter a can figure purchase no less than 1,000 billion (about 742 million euros).

Twitch born 2011 and has currently more than 55 million users assets over a month and one million members broadcast their videos each month. The platform allows users to share live video streaming of games games.

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