Periscope

Earlier this week, Dorsey landed in India and visited the Dalai Lama, Jaipur city, attended a townhall with students at IIT-Delhi, and also met with PM Modi and Rahul Gandhi

Storyboard: Cannes Special!

Storyboard spoke to a few interesting people at the Cannes Lions. Among the two very exciting conversations, the first one is with Kayvon Bekypour, Co-Founder & CEO of Periscope and second one is Aline Santos, Executive Vice President of Global Marketing for Unilever. Aline Santos spoke about the problems faced by global brands in local markets.

InstaLively an app to live stream over social media sites

The category of live streaming apps is gathering steam after the rise of Meerkat and Twitters own Periscope. InstaLively is an android app that allows you to instantly start a live stream and share it over Facebook, Twitter or as a link on Whatsapp or via email and SMS.

Twitter India names Viral Jani as Head of TV partnerships

Viral Jani will lead the social TV movement in India in two ways - by bringing the best content from TV channels to Twitter's platform for live, public conversations, while enabling Twitter as an incredible video and visual-driven story-telling platform to drive tune-in and audience engagement for the TV channels, it said.

More users consuming news through Facebook, Twitter: Study

The Pew Research Centre found that more than half of all Facebook and Twitter users get news from the sites, a significant increase for both services since 2013.