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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
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- 6:54Reaction From Residents of Israel and Gaza
- 16:54Amazon Gets Twitchy You’re reading this
- 24:50Los Angeles Plays Itself
- 40:28Overprescribing Drugs for Foster Kids
The full episode
3 of 5Los Angeles Plays Itself, Amazon Gets Twitchy, and a Mideast Truce- 0:00Will Israel-Gaza Ceasefire Hold?
- 6:54Reaction From Residents of Israel and Gaza
- 16:54Amazon Gets Twitchy You’re reading this
- 24:50Los Angeles Plays Itself
- 40:28Overprescribing Drugs for Foster Kids