So while it might not precisely mobile news, it is the probably the biggest news in gaming this week thus far: Amazon has acquired Twitch for almost $1 billion dollars.
For the last three months, numerous reports have reported that Google was in talks to buy Twitch, the popular stream site. Forbes reported that Google was unable to close the deal because it was concerned about potential antitrust issues that could have come with the acquisition.
Amazon’s almost $1billion dollar purchase of Twitch is the largest purchase the company has made in its 20 years. The last largest comparable company purchase was for Zappos, which was about $850 million in 2009. The purchase of Twitch, which now has up to 50 million unique users each day, is said to be complete by the end of 2014.
The purchase spells yet another loss for Google in a recent string of purported misteps on the part of everyone’s favorite multinational behemoth. In addition to Twitch, Amazon was reportedly in talks to buy Spotify for $5 billion dollars before the deal fell through and also pursued WhatsApp before Facebook bought them for $9 billion.
That’s a lot of money being thrown around – but at least our beloved Android OS is still alive,breathing and spitting out cheap apps like it’s nobody’s business. Any thoughts?