YouTube to Double Down on Live Streaming With Twitch

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YouTube to Double Down on Live Streaming With Twitch
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YouTube's acquisition of live streaming video platform Twitch for $1 billion is all but confirmed (http://mashable.com/2014/05/18/youtube-buys-twitch/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss). Users can log onto Twitch to watch other users play video games — which may provoke the question, who would want to watch someone else play video games?

See also: Twitch Changes the Mobile Game With Live Streaming (http://mashable.com/2014/03/20/twitch-mobile-gaming/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)


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