Teacher:In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
Teacher: Now, understand the problem? Solve this instance: Twitch specializes in live videos of people playing games, including regular Joes blasting away in Call of Duty, a popular shooting game, and elite players who earn million-dollar payouts at professional game tournaments. Twitch viewers typically see the screen of a broadcaster, featuring the game being played, along with a video feed of the player’s face and a chat window so they can communicate with the player and others watching the action. 
  
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 The site has attracted enough viewers to put it among 15 most-trafficked websites around the world, according to data compiled by Sandvine, an Internet networking company. Twitch viewers flock to the site to improve their gaming skills by watching people who have mastered a game or just to get a closer look at games before buying them. Some of the biggest followings on Twitch are of people who are simply amusing, rather than the best players. 
  
 Gamers can transmit games over Twitch by using PCs along with consoles like the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Twitch says that people watch more than 16 billion minutes of its videos each month. More than 1.1 million unique broadcasters use Twitch to stream video. 
  
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 The company shares advertising revenue with people who broadcast over its service. While the audiences for many broadcasters are so small they make little money, some broadcasters are said to earn over six figures a year. 
  
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 The service has dovetailed with the rise of e-sports, as professional gaming is often called. Twitch broadcasts the action from live tournaments for big games like League of Legends and Dota 2. Professional gamers also use Twitch to let spectators watch their practices, inviting them to ask questions about playing techniques. 
  
 “Before Twitch, gaming was something you did in the basement in the glow of your monitor,” said David Cowan, a venture capitalist with Bessemer Venture Partners, a big investor in Twitch. “Now it’s something you can do in groups with hundreds and thousands of people.” 
  
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 It is not clear exactly how Amazon intends to fit Twitch into its eclectic and ever-expanding portfolio of businesses. It could help accelerate the company’s advertising ambitions by giving it a huge video network to pump commercials through. This year, Amazon ad revenue is expected to jump 40 percent, to over $1 billion, according to estimates from eMarketer, a technology research firm. 
  
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 Amazon plans to let Twitch operate independently, out of its offices in San Francisco, according to Emmett Shear, Twitch’s chief executive. The deal includes stock Amazon is paying to retain Twitch employees and $970 million in cash, said a person briefed on the terms of the deal. 
  
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 For months, Amazon has been in a nasty public feud with the Hachette Book Group over the pricing of that publisher’s e-books, showing just how important unfettered access to digital content is to the company’s ambitions. Amazon has started to invest heavily in developing original television shows and movies, and even to develop games of its own, all of them accessible to a growing array of devices, including an Amazon smartphone, television set-top box and tablets. 
  
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 “We’re heavily invested in games already,” Mike Frazzini, vice president for Amazon games, said in an interview. “We have a healthy business selling games to customers.” 
  
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 James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, said the Hachette dispute had shown that Amazon needed to invest more in content that it can control. “It puts them into a vulnerable position where they need to make sure they have hours and hours of stuff to pump into these devices,” Mr. McQuivey said. 
  
 But Amazon could also face pricing disputes with game publishers, since Twitch has agreements with major game makers that allow it to broadcast content from their games. 
  
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 Some publishers, though, are interested in more lucrative deals with Twitch than the ones they have now. One such publisher, Activision Blizzard, which owns the games Hearthstone and Call of Duty, is unlikely to continue its current business arrangement with Twitch, according to a person briefed on the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the discussions were private. 
  
 Twitch “loves Blizzard’s games,” Mr. Shear said, and the company wants to help Blizzard make more money from the site. 
  
 “It’s a huge marketing value for them,” he said. 
  
 Mr. Shear said that the site also provided a community meeting place — recalling an old ritual, when gamers would crowd one another in arcades. 
  
 “What Twitch supports isn’t even new — it’s old,” he said. “But what’s new, that showed up in the past few years, is the entire online community can participate en masse in this kind of full interactive experience.” ||||| As videogames become a spectator sport, Amazon.com Inc. just bought the world's largest arena. 
  
 The e-commerce giant said Monday it agreed to acquire Twitch Interactive Inc., a popular Internet video channel for broadcasting, and watching, people play videogames, for about $970 million in cash. 
  
 The deal is Amazon's second biggest, and underscores the popularity of online gaming. Though little-known outside of tech and gaming,... |||||
Student:
Amazon just bought the fourth-largest source of online traffic in its second-biggest purchase ever, the Wall Street Journal reports—but you may never have heard of the service in question. Twitch is an online channel that offers video gamers a chance to watch each other play. Amazon reached a deal yesterday to buy the service for $970 million, though the figure could break $1 billion if Twitch fulfills unnamed performance goals, an insider tells the Journal; the New York Times reports the figure as $1.1 billion. It's "a substantial step forward as we think about games generally," says Amazon's gaming VP. Even if many of us aren't familiar with the service, a championship League of Legends game last year brought an audience bigger than that of the finales of Breaking Bad, the Sopranos, and 24 combined, the Journal notes. Twitch has about 55 million users and is responsible for some 2% of peak online traffic in this country. It's one of the 15 "most-trafficked" sites worldwide, the Times notes. "Broadcasting and watching gameplay is a global phenomenon," Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. "Twitch has built a platform that brings together tens of millions of people who watch billions of minutes of games each month." Mashable has a primer on Twitch here; other companies, including Google, have previously sought to buy it.