Periscope
Facebook Takes On Periscope By Giving Live Streaming To All U.S. iPhoners
Get ready for the big Live streaming showdown. Finally we’ll see who’s approach wins: Twitter and Periscope with a separate app and replays that can only be watched for 24…
Action camera maker GoPro is integrating with Periscope, the livestreaming app from Twitter. Owners of the GoPro HERO4 cameras will be able to broadcast their adventures directly to Periscope. As…
Meet The Apps Vying For The Crunchie For Best Mobile App Of 2015
The 9th Annual Crunchies are right around the corner. On February 8, some of your favorite startups, entrepreneurs and investors will make their way to San Francisco’s War Memorial Opera…
100M Live Broadcasts In, Periscope Streams New Life Into Your Twitter Feed
Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming app, has played around in the outskirts of Twitter, with nothing more than a screenshot and link being shared when you see a stream pop up…
Brands, Platforms, The Live Video Labyrinth And How Everyone Can Win
With Periscope and Meerkat being two of the breakout stars of this year’s SXSW, and Snapchat serving as the primary engagement tool for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, live video…
Periscope Gets Better Maps, Skip Ahead And 3D Touch Shortcuts Including ‘Teleport’
Some pretty notable updates for Periscope, the live broadcasting service owned by Twitter, just dropped today. Included among the new goodies for users of Periscope for iOS is teleporting, a…
Twitter Holds Post-Earnings Q&A On Periscope With CFO Anthony Noto
Twitter is currently holding a post-earnings Q&A on Periscope. The guest? CFO Anthony Noto. The company took a bit of a nosedive after its Q3 earnings at the end of…
Dorsey: “Twitter Is Getting Easier To Use Every Single Week,” TV Ad To Premiere During World Series
During Twitter’s Q3 earnings call, CEO Jack Dorsey was joined by COO Adam Bain and CFO Anthony Noto. The call was broadcasted live on Periscope for the second straight time.…
Periscope Goes Batty For Halloween, Introduces A Themed Heart
It’s not a Twitter custom emoji, but it’s close. Looks like Periscope is playing around with the hearts that you can send folks who are livestreaming. For Halloween, it’s bats!…
Twitter’s Periscope Goes Down During Flight Keynote
I was hoping to share some of the final bits of the Twitter Flight conference with you from my front row seat live and in beautiful mobile color, but was…
Bessemer is actively investing in consumer video startups. It’s a space we’ve been focused on for a while now. We invested early in Twitch in 2012 following the company’s pivot…
The White House Joins Periscope And Broadcasts Pope’s Visit
The White House created a Periscope account on Tuesday, just in time for Pope Francis’ trip to the United States. The White House live broadcast Pope Francis stepping off his…
Periscope Turns Screenshotting Into A Social Experience
A new version of Periscope popped up on the App Store today that allows viewers to share screenshots that they take during your stream. Additionally a little screenshot icon will…
This Guy’s Periscoping A Marathon From His Wheelchair
The great part about live-streaming apps like Periscope and Meerkat is that we get to see things that we rarely (or never) get to see from a different perspective. Today is…
13 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
This week, Apple held an event in San Francisco during which it announced tons of new hardware, rival transportation apps in Asia battled for more funding, and Periscope added Facebook…
Periscope Is Secretly Building An Apple TV App
Periscope is developing an app for the new Apple TV, according to multiple sources. It will allow users to watch livestreams on their television that are broadcasted from Twitter’s Periscope app.…
Periscope Has 10M Registered Users Watching 40 Years Of Video Per Day
Periscope may have just hit the impressive milestone of 10 million registered users after just four months, but what it wants you to focus on is the sheer volume of video…
Twitter Monthly Active Users Crawl To 316M, Dorsey: “We Are Not Satisfied”
Twitter reported that its monthly active user count has reached 316 million, up a paltry 15 percent compared to the year-ago quarter, and up from 308 million in the preceding…
Twitter’s Periscope Now Lets You Mute Users, Watch Live On Mac Via iOS 8 Handoff
One of the biggest problems with the Twitter-owned live streaming app Periscope from day one has been its notification system. While push notifications are a useful way to immediately discover…
Dick Costolo Dances Around The Question Of Who Will Lead Twitter Next
Dick Costolo stepped down as Twitter’s CEO last week, and since then theories about who will lead Twitter next have flown throughout the Internet. Costolo, on stage at the Bloomberg…
Periscope Update Brings A Global Map View Of Active Broadcasts
Periscope users will now be able to open up a map that will show which videos are live around the world as part of an update today. Instead of just…
Costolo Says Twitter’s Future Is More Curation, Relevance And Media
Onstage at Code in Southern California this morning, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo fielded questions about whether he’d be keeping his job in the face of outside criticism and angst over…
10 Years Of Periscope Content Is Watched Per Day, 380 Years Watched Since Launch
Disclosure: I own less than 500 shares each of Twitter, Yahoo, and Aol stock. Get ready for a new live streaming metric: Content years. Periscope CEO Kayvon Beykpour took the stage today at…
Periscope Decouples From Twitter To Let New Users Sign Up With A Phone Number
I’m not sure about you, but most of my friends in real life — aka people I didn’t meet through the internet or work — don’t actually use Twitter. It…
On Piracy, Periscope CEO Says “There’s Way More Media Attention Than Problem”
“Nobody wants to watch Game Of Thrones on Periscope” says the Twitter-acquired startup’s co-founder and CEO Kayvon Beykpour. Despite widespread reports of Periscopers using the mobile live-streaming app to pirate…
Meet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges
Disrupt NY is just a few days away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long…
Periscope Saw Over 1 Million Sign-Ins During Its First 10 Days
Twitter today gave the first official news about the growth of its live-streaming video acquisition Periscope, with CEO Dick Costolo saying more than 1 million people signed in to the…
Following its acquisition of live streaming app Periscope, Twitter has been actively fighting to make sure its service beats that of independent competitor Meerkat, which had a slightly earlier start. In…
The Rise Of Micro Startup Acquisitions
Recent news of Pinterest acquiring a two-person startup was probably a head scratcher for most of you. It shouldn’t be. Along with Kosei, Hike Labs was a focusedmicro acquisition intended…
Periscope’s Kayvon Beykpour Will Go Live At Disrupt NY In May
Periscope and Meerkat have a lot in common. They’re both livestreaming platforms. They’re both integrated with Twitter in some fashion. They both launched in the past couple months. And last…