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a teensy bind DirecTV and YouTube buying twitch tech companies are going shopping I'm Bridget Carey and this is your CNN updates as we watch more video programming on the Internet the world of telecom and television are emerging into the same business so it doesn't come as much of a surprise to hear that 18p wants to buy satellite TV provider DirecTV for the price of forty eight point five billion dollars that means AT&T is spending about three billion more dollars than Comcast is spending to buy Time Warner Cable it would take a year for this deal to go through if it's approved by regulators ATT does have its own television service called u-verse but that's limited to a few areas and when you can't get u-verse ATT will sell you a bundle that includes DirecTV so these companies already have been working together installing u-verse fiber lines in more areas is expensive for 18t but expanding DIRECTV well that's much easier pretty much anyone in the u.s. can get it by popping a satellite dish on their home xviii he is also changing up its prepaid wireless business ATT recently purchased the cricut brand of prepaid phone service and to support cricut ATT is killing the name of its other prepaid service called ayo and now everything is going to be under the name cricut google has a few acquisitions of its own epic quest visual which created the translation app Word Lens if you point your phone's camera at a sign that's in another language word lens will show you the translation in English or vice versa it's one of the more useful apps for Google glass but that's not all YouTube which is owned by Google could be trying to buy the game or video site twitch for 1 billion dollars that's according to a report from variety but sources tell the Wall Street Journal that the two companies are still in early talks so nothing's official yet twitch is a popular website for video game fans to stream their gameplay for others to watch live in other video game news a new system update the Xbox one it offers a few fixes and new features like better volume controls and to all the gamers that watch update I need to set the record straight on a mistake I made in the last episode the new Halo game is simply called halo 5 Guardians but I said it was halo guardians of the galaxy which was probably a result of me subconsciously thinking about the new trailer and poster for the Marvel movie called guardians of the galaxy but combining the space heroes with halo would be a cool mashup that's your tech news update you can find more details at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey