Unlike its rival Facebook, Twitter doesn't make a big fuss over acquisitions of former rivals. Like Facebook, however, these new properties eventually make their way into the core features of the ...

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 ...

Six years after its launch Periscope, the app that popularized live streaming video from user’s smartphones is shutting down. The service, which has been owned by Twitter since right before its ...

Twitter wants to help you step up your livestreams. The social network's livestreaming app Periscope is opening up its app so that users can live stream directly from cameras other than the ones on ...

Editor's take: Periscope, the service that helped popularize the concept of live video streaming from a mobile device in the mid-2010s, has been discontinued. Of course, if you're familiar with ...