Google reported to sign deal to buy Twitch

[Chessrook44]

Welp, there goes Twitch into Google for a billion bucks, repeatedly. How long until Google+ gets forced into Twitch?
https://games.yahoo.com/blogs/plugged-in/report--google-signs--1b-deal-to-buy-twitch-184353785.html

 

[Lilani]

Ugh. Google needs to prove they can make sites that are intuitive and easy to navigate before acquiring any more video sites. I simply cannot understand how they can time and again screw up something as generally unbroken as YouTube.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Well Google didn't come this far on stupidity, they will buy Twitch and hold off any changes for one or two years so all criticism of the transaction is forgotten... then they assimilate.

 

[ClockworkPenguin]

Ugh. I watch twitch so much these days because it isn't youtube. Can google just eff off trying to monopolise the internet.

 

[Alfador_VII]

This rumour just won't go away. But this particular report is even less credible than the previous one.

Firstly the value of $1bn, ok now one billion dollars sounds like a lot but it really isn't. Google themselves bought Youtube in 2006 for $1.6bn when Youtube was basically nothing. At the time it was a small site, that not really all that many people used.

Twitch in 2014 is a totally different prospect. It's the 4th most visited site in the US, and is growing rapidly, pulling in tons of ad revenue and other money, so there's no way it's worth as little as a billion. It's real worth, if it was up for sale would be many times that.

The other glaring problem with this story, if you go to the source linked by the Yahoo report is that in that story they prominently mention that Google and Twitch are appearing at an upcoming event, which by a staggering coincidence is run by the site carrying the news report. If it's just an attempt to generate interest in their event, it's working!

Having said all that, I wouldn't be surprised if Google have considered taking over Twitch, because at least on their side, it makes sense. But until something is announced officially by Google or Twitch, this is still only a rumour.

TLDR: Dubious source, probably still false rumours, wait for confirmation from Google and Twitch

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Yeah, Twitch is worth more than a billion at this point. Just going to write this one off as a rumor but I wouldn't doubt it if Google would make a bid for it in the next year or so.