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 ...

There’s a new social media fad that’s going crazy on Twitter — people have started linking to a service called Meerkat. If you click these links fast enough, it will take you to a live video stream — ...

So Meerkating is now a thing. The immensely popular live-streaming app Meerkat has timed it’s rise to prominence perfectly to coincide with the annual South by Southwest Festival, leading to a storm ...

Meerkat's popularity tanked in the weeks after Twitter cut off the live streaming app from its social graph and launched a rival live video product, Persicope, in March. Now, Meerkat is turning to a ...

Video streamer Hang w/ is proving true to its name, with multiple feeds of boldface names like 50 Cent. WireImage) Neither Meerkat nor Periscope invented live video-streaming for smartphones, and the ...

If you’re reading TechCrunch right now (you are, by the way), chances are you have at least heard of Meerkat. You may even be simultaneously hoping that you don’t have to fall prey to the new SXSW ...

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 ...

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 ...

The temptation to write off Meerkat -- the live-streaming app that sort of blew up at SXSW -- is tough to resist. After all, Twitter wasted no time releasing a competitor (with a cleaner interface, no ...

"Meerkat mobs can be fierce, so to see how this group has successfully come together to raise these new pups has been really exciting," said a zoo spokesperson Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on ...