E442: Why Twitter, AT&T and GoPro all want to be media companies and Bing Launch of the Week




This Week in Startups - Video show

Summary: Twitter considered buying Soundcloud. AT&amp;T made a bid to buy DirecTV. GoPro is going public and wants to move away from hardware toward content creation. Why does everyone want to be a media company? And what does YouTube want with Twitch.TV after pouring money into video-game heavy multichannel network Machinima? Ben Parr of Dominate Fund and Dawn Chmielewski of Recode join us for this very lively roundtable. <br> Plus, Matt Cutts search moves and in the Bing Launch of the Week: the internet of things comes to children's iPad games, golf clubs and even toothbrushes!