In recent months the number of absorption of some other IT-companies. Apple acquires Beats, Mark Zuckerberg forked over Oculus Rift, AT & T buys cable television service DirecTV, now the turn of Google. The search giant plans to acquire service Twitch, by which millions of players around the world can lead online broadcast their gaming experience for everyone.
In this case we are talking about the absorption unit Twitch YouTube, which, as you know, is entirely owned by Google. Twitch is inherently a such a narrowly focused YouTube for gamers, so the deal makes some sense. This service is so popular among the players that large companies such as Sony and Microsoft added it to a full-featured support for their console PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Of course, compared with its video service YouTube billion monthly users and Twitch, which is used by about 45 million people, is somehow wrong. However, if you combine these two services - Google may largely win.
Currently the deal is estimated at $ 1 billion, and Google now settles all the necessary formalities with the documents to carry out the process of absorbing all the laws of the market. What will this buy - time will tell. But you can definitely say that Twitch, thanks to the patronage of such a giant company, eventually grow to an impressive size.