p>Microsoft is set to take on YouTube and Amazon's Twitch by acquiring its own livestreaming service.
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p>The Xbox maker has announced today plans to purchase live-streaming service Beam founded in Seattle. https://paranormalinstitute.org/members/malletoffer8/activity/6536/ Beam is a company founded by 18 year old Matt Salsamendi. https://site-9432957-8198-1781.mystrikingly.com/blog/minecraft-wither-how-to-spawn-and-defeat-the-boss-wither </p>
p>The teen, who launched his company in January claims it has already reached 100,000 users.
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p>The Xbox maker today announced its plans to acquire live-streaming service Beam which is a Seattle-based business founded by 18-year-old Matt Salsamendi
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p>It allows users to interact with and influence the streamed video game, which is different from other streaming services.
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p>Beam lets viewers offer challenges to streamers, and even alter in-game elements such as weapon loadout or the quest selection.
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p>It also lets developers create special button layouts that allow viewers to interact with games streamed by Beam.
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p>"We at Xbox are thrilled by this convergence of watching and playing and we're eager to give players the freedom and choice to enjoy great multiplayer experiences across all of Beam's platforms and devices,' Chad Gibson, a program manager for the partner group at Microsoft's Xbox Live division in an announcement.
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p>"This acquisition will allow gamers to play the games they enjoy, with the people they love, and on the devices that they prefer."
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p>No details of the deal were revealed.
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p>He explained how the system may be integrated with Minecraft.
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p>'Using 'Minecraft' as one example with Beam you don't just sit and watch your favorite streamer's game and you get to play along with them.
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p>"You can take on them and make in-real-time decisions that affect their gameplay, like tools as well as quests, movements, and much more. All this is achievable by using simple visual controls."
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p>Salsamendi says Beam will continue to operate even as he and his team join the Xbox engineering group.
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p>In a blog post on Beam's website, Salsamendi says the service has grown to about 100,000 users since it was launched in January of this year.
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p>As part of Xbox, we'll be able to grow faster than we've ever been capable of before",' he writes.
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p>"We are expanding our team and strengthening our infrastructure and most important, we're expanding and supporting Beam's incredible community..
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p>The 18-Year-Old CEO AND FOUNDER
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p>After running a massive game server platform hosting Minecraft servers for four years, Matthew Salsamendi, at 18 years old, decided to launch Beam.
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p>The Seattle-based startup lets creators chat with viewers, and also allows them to participate and control specific aspects of the game streamed.
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p>Players interacting through Beam can control the gameplay of the person streaming, doing things like setting which weapon they will use in battle for multiplayer shooters, for example.
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p>It was announced at TechCrunch? NY 2016 and won the Startup Battlefield competition.
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p>Winners of the TechCrunch? Disrupt Startup Battlefield Matt Salsamendi and James Boehm of Beam pose for a photo at TechCrunch? Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on May 11, 2016 in New York City.
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p>Salsamendi from Bellevue in Seattle is 'passionate about high-availability infrastructure and web performance! according to his bio.
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p>'In his free time you'll be able to find him programming, creating theater lighting, flying planes, and making short films,' it adds.
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p>Salsamendi However, he did not anticipate this kind of approach. In a recent interview with Geekwire he answered that he would rather have Gates, Zuckerberg, or Bezos in his corner.
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p>"He has an unique global perspective of the human interaction and community.
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p>"We operate as a social media indirect platform for gamers, and Zuckerberg the King of Social.
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