When Twitter announced it had acquired Periscope in March 2015, the app was full of promise. It was one of the first to let anyone broadcast video of themselves live from anywhere in the world, using ...

While glitches like those would be unthinkable in a produced, controlled advertising environment, big brands such as Royal Caribbean, BMW and Benefit are going ahead with plans to use live-streaming ...

[Correction April 29: Please note that the top user, number of users, and ratings in the chart below are reversed for the two services.] I started using Meerkat right as buzz started to build up in ...