Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Amazon Gets Twitchy
Amazon opened its pocketbook wide this week. It acquired the site Twitch for just under a Billion dollars. Compare that to last year, when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos only paid about a quarter of that for the Washington Post.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readAmazon opened its pocketbook wide this week. It acquired the site Twitch for just under a Billion dollars. Compare that to last year, when Amazon’s Jeff Bezos only paid about a quarter of that for the Washington Post. TLDR’s Alex Goldman joins us to explain the allure of Twitch and to discuss other news from the world of the internet.
Image: Screen capture of a live Twitch stream
