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China's biggest live-streaming platform DouYu files for $500 million IPO in the US
The company is backed by Tencent and is considered China's answer to Twitch

Top 10 streamed games of the week: Fortnite is finally knocked off the top spot
Our weekly chart of the most watched games across Twitch, YouTube Gaming, Mixer and Facebook.

1,000 Dreams Fund awards grants to 50 up-and-coming female streamers
A charity livestream back in March helped to raise $45,000 for the BroadcastHER grants

Driver with Uber and Lyft is fired after livestreaming pickups to his Twitch channel
Jason Gargac had been livestreaming his customers without their consent

Twitch's new Giphy extension for streamers lets viewers react with GIFs
Content moderated in effort to ensure offensive GIFS are removed

Fortnite most-watched game in May racking up almost 600m hours of view time
Viewers watch nearly 700m hours of battle royale content in total

Twitch Fortnite streaming star Ninja uses streaming superpowers to save orphanage

Ninja is cleaning up his potty mouth and fans are f***ing furious
“Little kids shouldn’t be running around dropping f-bombs or swearing at all at that age”

Facebook adds new tools to make livestreaming more efficient
The platform has added persistent stream keys, live rewind and crossposting

Twitch streaming blocked in Russia amidst Telegram crackdown
Attempts to ban app result in other websites and services going offline

Ex-Fullscreen senior director Nina Kammer joins livestreaming platform Mobcrush

Twitch pulls in 82% of watch time for top 20 streamed games in Q1 2018
Twitch and YouTube Gaming generated 2.5 billion viewing hours