Meet Twitch, the video-streaming firm Google may buy for $1 billion

Google is reportedly in talks to buy the live-streaming video game service, Twitch, for $1 billion.

If true, the reportedly all-cash deal would be the largest-ever acquisition for Google's YouTube video service, which itself was acquired by the tech giant in 2006 for $1.65 billion. YouTube has made a series of acquisitions and investments in its pursuit of becoming a destination for more original, high-quality content, and the report comes just months after Google named former advertising executive Susan Wojcicki to lead the YouTube team. Twitch is a service designed to let video gamers broadcast their games in real-time and has grown enormously in the past few years along with the popularity of "e-sports" -- the term used for broadcasts featuring professional video game players. In a recent article by the Wall Street Journal, Twitch ranked fourth in a ranking of peak Internet traffic in the US -- ahead of Hulu.