Google May Buy Twitch for $1 Billion, Previously Known as Justin.tv, reports

Google is in discussions to buy Twitch – formerly known as Justin.tv, the pioneering life streaming platform.  As Twitch, it is primarily a platform for gamers to interact via a live video platform.  The early talks have been reported by The Wall Street Journal. Variety puts a potential sale number at $1 billion. Last year, […]

Flash Player Debuts on U.S. Mobile Phones and Beet.TV has the Demo — Justin.tv and YouTube Look Great!

The ubiquitous Flash Video Player, the most widely used Web plug-in to watch online video, has finally landed on mobile phones in the United States, albeit with limited availability.  Some 450 million mobile devices around the globe have the Flash Player, but only a handful in the United States, which is woefully behind most of […]

Justin.TV Readies Launch of New Live Video Platform Business…On2 Announces Live Flash Video Program for Web Users — We’re All Going Live!

Click To Play Here’s Justin Kan of Justin.TV, the dude wearing the live TV camera on his head. I hung out with him LA last week where he was live casting his experience at the AlwaysOn conference. Justin is streaming live Flash video through a wireless device. This is no publicity stunt, it’s about business. […]

Amazon to Buy Live Video Portal Twitch for $1Billion, report

Twitch, the live video platform that allows gamers to interact over  the Internet, will be acquired by Amazon for over $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports.   the site was formerly known as Justin.tv, a pioneering platform for personal live streaming. Last year, we spoke with chief revenue officer Jonathan Simpson-Bint about the company’s fast […]

‘Twitch’ Set To Boom With Xbox Tie-Up, iOS Software

When Microsoft announced last month that Xbox One players will be able to broadcast their live gaming sessions via the Twitch.TV platform, many people could have been forgiven for asking: “Twitch who?” But the announcement was a crowning for the former Justin.TV, the livestreaming service that was so often home to illegally-streamed content. Now the […]