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The rise of Twitch: Amazon, cord-cutting, and why it’s just like Kickstarter

Gina Baldassarre - March 23, 2015 < 1 MIN READ

With north of 100 million monthly users, Twitch is one of the biggest livestreaming portals in the world, and is perhaps best known for people broadcasting themselves playing video games to the global masses. [Source: VentureBeat]

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Is another $1 billion deal about to go down? YouTube to buy Twitch?

Mat Beeche - May 19, 2014 < 1 MIN READ

If you have never heard of the juggernaut that is Twitch, then it is highly likely you are not a massive gamer. Twitch was founded by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear in 2011, and is one of the first websites to host live streaming user-generated video, of video gaming.