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Video: Amazon, Not Google, To Buy Gamer Site Twitch

Amazon.com, having presumably outbid Google, said on Monday that it’s reached an agreement to acquire Twitch, a popular live-streaming platform and community for players of video games. The price: $970 million. Google (GOOGL) and Google’s YouTube had been rumored for months to have been in talks with Twitch. There perhaps had been other bidders for the online video site, which says that it has 55 million users. “We chose Amazon (AMZN) because they

Amazon, Cloud Rivals Wage Price War In ‘Land Grab’

Cloud-services providers are unlikely to throttle back their torrid capital spending despite an ongoing price war that took some steam out of Amazon.com’s Q2 earnings. Cloud-services leaders Amazon (AMZN), Google (GOOGL) and Microsoft (MSFT) are stepping on the accelerator as they aim to grab market share, analysts say. Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud business is the biggest provider of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), where customers

People might not wait for Apple iWatch after seeing Moto 360

The most anticipated smartwatch that isn’t Apple’s (AAPL) iWatch, Motorola’s Moto 360, is set to hit the market soon for $250, according to details inadvertently posted to Best Buy’s website. The Moto 360 features a round display like a traditional watch face and has a leather watch band. Previous smartwatches, such as Samsung’s Galaxy Gear, were criticized for their bulky, inelegant designs. The Moto 360 runs on the Google (GOOGL) Android Wear operating system. Details about the Moto 360, including its price, were accidentally leaked by Best Buy (BBY) on Sunday when it posted the product on its website, according to Droid Life. The retailer later removed the webpage. The Moto 360 will sport a 1.5-inch backlit LCD touchscreen display with Corning (GLW) Gorilla Glass protection. The wearable device weighs 2.1 ounces. By comparison, the Gear 2 Neo, a second-generation Samsung smartwatch, features a 1.63-inch square display and weighs 1.9…