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Author Topic: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion  (Read 5510 times)

wraith808

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Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« on: July 26, 2014, 10:48 AM »

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2014, 11:15 AM »
Another one bites the dust.

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #2 on: July 26, 2014, 11:56 AM »
http://www.geek.com/...r-1-billion-1600285/
-wraith808 (July 26, 2014, 10:48 AM)

Let’s just hope Google doesn’t mess up Twitch.

Yeah... Good fucking luck with that! :P
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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #3 on: July 26, 2014, 12:26 PM »
How doth the little crocodile?

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #4 on: July 26, 2014, 12:37 PM »
How doth the little crocodile?
-40hz (July 26, 2014, 12:26 PM)

I have improved it! :)
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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #5 on: July 27, 2014, 02:16 PM »
I read these numbers "billion"..........
then remember that it takes 100,000 light years for light to travel from one end of the Milky Way, our Milky Way, to the other end, go out and step on an ant, flex my muscles, yawn, and come back in and pour a cup of coffee. meh!! 8)

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #6 on: August 25, 2014, 06:40 PM »
Amazon, not Google, is buying Twitch for $970 million

Twitch is getting bought, but it's not YouTube and Google that are doing the buying. Amazon has agreed to buy the massively popular video game streaming website in an all-cash deal totaling approximately $970 million. The announcement is surprising in light of recent reports that suggested YouTube and Twitch had already reached a $1 billion buyout agreement to bring Twitch's platform and massive community under the Google umbrella.

http://www.theverge....h-for-over-1-billion

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #7 on: August 25, 2014, 07:16 PM »
I don't know if that's better or worse...  :huh:

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #8 on: August 26, 2014, 03:02 AM »
I don't know if that's better or worse...  :huh:
-wraith808 (August 25, 2014, 07:16 PM)

At least Google would have been highly unlikely to start charging you for the service, even if it would have meant having to invent some new high level ad blocker for it to be remotely usable.

 :huh:

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Re: Google Acquires Twitch for $1 Billion
« Reply #9 on: August 26, 2014, 09:08 AM »
I don't know if that's better or worse...  :huh:
-wraith808 (August 25, 2014, 07:16 PM)

At least Google would have been highly unlikely to start charging you for the service, even if it would have meant having to invent some new high level ad blocker for it to be remotely usable.

 :huh:
-Stephen66515 (August 26, 2014, 03:02 AM)

Google could have also killed the service and rolled it into YT.  That's what people were most afraid of.
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