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Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by chongli on Monday May 19, 2014 @01:37AM (#7765859)
If people aren't able to continue streaming their favourite game on Twitch after the acquisition, they will go somewhere else and Youtube will have gained nothing from the deal. It makes absolutely zero sense to buy out a competitor just to drive all their users to a different competitor.
Re:YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for... by alandarev on Monday May 19, 2014 @07:46AM (#7766954)
Microsoft did this all the time to protect it's Office, and it worked. I do not think this is meaningless, not very efficient, but gigants can sacrifice efficiency if it helps save their primary revenue.