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March 4, 2016 11:19 pm GMT
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Meerkat is pivoting away from the livestream game it helped invent
Meerkat — the darling of South by Southwest 2015 that helped kickstart the livestreaming app craze — is pivoting away from live broadcasts.
News of the pivot was first reported by Re/code, who obtained emails sent to investors and discussed the changes with Meerkat's CEO Ben Rubin.
Meerkat debuted almost one year ago at SXSW 2015. It immediately became the darling of the festival. Livestreaming apps existed before Meerkat, but it was one of the first to let users do it from mobile and broadcast to potentially thousands of users — users that could then post comments about the stream in real time. Read more...
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