NEW YORK — What a difference a year makes. Meerkat was but a couple of weeks old when this promising app that let users broadcast a stream live over a smartphone took Austin by storm. The oversized ...

Meerkat has enjoyed over a month of dominance in the streaming-video category, but Twitter's release of Periscope has changed all that. Here's why. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years.

This year’s “Shark Week” will include lots of Meerkat live streams, which will be viewable right on Discovery.com once the action unfolds at the end of next week. The Discovery Channel has teamed up ...

Meerkat is dead. The mobile app that ignited a live-steaming revolution when it made its debut at South by Southwest 2015 was removed from the iOS and Android app stores Friday. Its funeral has been ...

Meerkat is one of the newer social media application services available that’s designed to push video feeds to your friends and follow their lives in real time. And the company has just announced an ...

The tech world is buzzing this week about a new streaming video app with an unusual name called Meerkat . The apps lets you use your Twitter account to send live vieo and audio out to the world, right ...

NEW YORK — Meerkat had better watch its back. The live-streaming video app that was all the rage at SXSW now faces big-time competition. It comes from the Periscope app launching today, which Twitter ...

That’s the danger of building on someone else’s platform. You never know when they’ll pivot into your business and steamroll you. Last night, that happened to Meerkat. 10 hours later, Buzzfeed’s Matt ...

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. After a year and a half working on his video startup, Yevvo, Ben Rubin had started to think about pulling the plug. The ...

Meerkat is a new livestreaming app that syncs up with Twitter to let you livestream and share video in real time. The app quickly became a favorite of Product Hunt users after it was posted to the ...

With Thursday’s public release of Periscope, Twitter is trying to torpedo its live-streaming competition by launching its own app that lets users send video to viewers around the world at the tap of a ...