Last week, Aleksandr Orlov gave his first ever public interview to The Sun. It was a brilliant “get” for Britain’s most-read daily, and a fantastic piece of coverage for Orlov. If this sounds like a ...

Meerkat Aleksandr Orlov has signed a new book deal. The mascot for comparison website comparethemarket.com and "founder" of rival comparethemeerkat.com will "write" six books about the characters from ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- comparethemeerkat.com founder Aleksandr Orlov today unveils the second instalment of his new advertising campaign today, which explores the meerkat village of Meerkovo. The ...

Technology crazes come and go so fast these days that they can arrive, collect millions from investors and disappear before most people even have heard of them. For example: Meerkat. I’d seen so many ...

With Thursday’s public release of Periscope, Twitter is trying to torpedo its live-streaming competition by launching its own app that lets users send video to viewers around the world at the tap of a ...

Meerkat is dead. The mobile app that ignited a live-steaming revolution when it made its debut at South by Southwest 2015 was removed from the iOS and Android app stores Friday. Its funeral has been ...

Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone’s tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope, a strikingly similar competitor built mostly in ...

Meerkat has enjoyed over a month of dominance in the streaming-video category, but Twitter's release of Periscope has changed all that. Here's why. Jason Parker has been at CNET for nearly 15 years.

is the editor of the Platformer newsletter and cohost of the Hard Fork podcast. After a year and a half working on his video startup, Yevvo, Ben Rubin had started to think about pulling the plug. The ...