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p>Microsoft is poised to take on YouTube? Amazon's Twitch and other streaming services by buying its own livestreaming service.

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p>The Xbox maker today announced its plans to buy 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 started his business in January says it already has 100,000 customers.

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p>The Xbox maker today announced its plans to buy live-streaming company Beam, a Seattle-based company created by 18-year-old Matt Salsamendi

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p>It lets users be involved and influence the streaming video game, unlike other streaming services.

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p>Beam lets players suggest streamers challenges and even modify in-game elements such as the weapon loadout or the quest selection.

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p>It also allows developers to design special button layouts for viewers to interact with games being streamed on Beam.

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p>"We at Xbox are excited by this convergence between playing and watching, and want gamers to have the flexibility and choice of great multiplayer experiences across all Beam's platforms." Chad Gibson, a program manager for partner groups at Microsoft's Xbox Live division, said in an announcement.

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p>This acquisition will allow gamers to enjoy the games they love and with the people they like, and on the devices they prefer.'

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p>The terms of the agreement were made public.

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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 watch your favorite streamers play 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 impact their gameplay, from tool selection to quests to movement all using simple visual controls.'

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p>Salsamendi says Beam will continue operating even as he and his team integrate into the Xbox engineering group.

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p>Salsamendi, in a blog post posted on the Beam website, said that Beam has grown to approximately 100,000 users since it was launched in January of this year.

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p>He writes, "As part Xbox, we will be able to grow faster than we ever have before,"

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p>We're expanding our team, bolstering our infrastructure and, the most important thing is to continue to expand and help the incredible community at Beam.'

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p>THE 18-YEAR-OLD CEO and Founder

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p>After operating a huge game server platform that hosted Minecraft servers for four years, Matthew Salsamendi, at the age of 18 decided to launch Beam.

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p>The company, which is based out of Seattle lets creators interact with their viewers and let them to control certain aspects of the game that is streamed.

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p>Players who interact with Beam can control the actions of the person streaming, doing things like setting the weapon loadout they use in battle for multiplayer shooters, for example.

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p>It was announced at TechCrunch? NY 2016 and was a winner of 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 picture during TechCrunch? Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on May 11 on the 11th of May in New York City.

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p>Salsamendi is from Bellevue, Seattle. He is enthusiastic about web performance and high availability infrastructure. According to his bio.

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p>In his spare time, you can find him programming, designing theater lighting, flying planes, and creating short films,' the article says.

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p>Salsamendi However, Salsamendi was not expecting this approach. In a recent interview with Geekwire Salsamendi stated that he would rather have Gates, Zuckerberg, or Bezos in his corner.

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p>'He has a unique global perspective on human interactions and communities. https://www.tumblr.com/gunnmack/696306229403877376/fortnite-creative-has-courses-for-minecraft </p>

p>"We operate as an indirect social networking gaming network and Zuckerberg is the king of Social.

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