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Amazon's Twitch Acquisition Closes

Amazon’s acquisition of videogame streaming site Twitch has officially closed, according to an SEC filing. The $1.1 billion deal, announced in August after months of speculation that Google would buy the company instead, is one of the e-commerce giant’s biggest deals ever. Twitch lets users watch and broadcast live videogames and has built a deeply engaged audience around that idea.

This article originally appeared on Recode.net.