p>Microsoft is ready to take on YouTube, Amazon's Twitch and other streaming services by purchasing its own livestreaming service.
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p>The Xbox maker has announced today its plans to acquire live-streaming service Beam founded in Seattle. Beam is a company founded by 18-year-old Matt Salsamendi.
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p>The teen who founded his firm in January, claims that it has already got 100,000 users.
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p>The Xbox maker today announced plans to buy live-streaming company Beam which is a Seattle-based business founded by 18-year-old Matt Salsamendi
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p>Unlike other streaming services, it lets users influence and interact with a video game being streamed by another player.
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p>Beam lets players suggest challenges for streamers and even alter in-game aspects like weapon loadouts and quest selection.
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p>It also allows developers to design special button layouts for viewers to interact with games streamed on Beam.
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p>"We at Xbox are thrilled about this convergence between watching and playing and we want our players to have the freedom and choice of amazing multiplayer experiences across all Beam's platforms." Chad Gibson, a program manager of partner groups at Microsoft's Xbox Live division, said in a statement.
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p>"This acquisition will allow gamers to play the games they love, 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 revealed how the system may work 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 but you also play along with them.
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p>You can present them with new challenges and make in-real-time choices that affect their gameplay, from selecting tools to quests to movement; all through simple visual controls.'
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p>Salsamendi says Beam will continue operating even as he and his coworkers join the Xbox engineering group.
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p>Salsamendi, in a blog entry posted on Beam's website, stated that the service has grown to around 100,000 users since it was launched in January this year.
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p>As part of Xbox, we'll be able to grow faster than we've ever before", according to the article.
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p>We're expanding our team, strengthening our infrastructure and, most importantly, we're continuing to expand and help the amazing community at Beam.'
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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 allows creators to chat with viewers, but it also allows them to participate and control specific aspects of the game streamed.
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p>Beam allows players to interact with each with each other and control their play. This includes setting the weapon loadout in multiplayer shooters as well as setting the weapon loadout for multiplayer shooters.
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p>It was launched at TechCrunch? NY 2016 and was a winner of the Startup Battlefield contest.
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p>Winners of the TechCrunch? Disrupt Startup Battlefield Matt Salsamendi and James Boehm of Beam pose for a photo during 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>He can also be found programming, designing theater lighting, flying airplanes, and creating short films in his spare time.
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p>Salsamendi However, Salsamendi was not expecting this approach. In an interview with Geekwire Salsamendi said that he would rather have Gates, Zuckerberg, or Bezos in his corner.
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p>"He has a unique global view of human interaction and communities.
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p>"We serve as a social media indirect gaming network and Zuckerberg, the king of Social.
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