Meerkat and Periscope are two apps with a similar purpose: To let you broadcast live video over the web for anyone who wants to tune in. But what if your circle of friends aren’t live streaming ...

Broadcasting live video on the Internet isn’t new. Neither is tweeting a link to a live streaming video. But put those two together in a simple package, and you have something that might just be ...

When Twitter launched its its new live-streaming video app Periscope on Thursday — the same day that its rival Meerkat announced $14 million in new funding — tech journos immediately scrambled to size ...

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.

If you're on Twitter, it's been hard to avoid hearing about Meerkat, the video-sharing app that's blowing up the social network — but the hashtags and excited tweets might not have told you what this ...

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 ...

Technology crazes come and go so fast these days that they can arrive, collect millions from investors and disappear before most people even have heard of them. For example: Meerkat. I’d seen so many ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami) -- Zoo Miami is mourning the loss of one of its meerkats who may have died in a tunnel collapse in his habitat. According to Zoo Miami Communications Director Ron Magill, zookeepers ...

If you pay attention to iPhone or Android apps, you've probably heard of Periscope and Meerkat. These two video services have brought livestreaming video to the forefront on mobile devices. And ...