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twitter is out to declaw the meerkat app I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update twitter is no longer playing nice with meerkat a fast-growing app that has become an overnight sensation for streaming live video to your followers on Twitter meerkat launched about two weeks ago but it already has a hundred and twenty thousand users it lets you broadcast live video from your smartphone and followers on Twitter get alerts of your broadcast to watch you need to tune in life because there are no repeats once it's over there's no watching it again the meerkat app depended heavily on Twitter's network instead of having to collect a new list of friends and followers for meerkat it just automatically pulled in all of your connections from Twitter giving users an instant audience that's why it became so popular so fast but Twitter cut off meerkat from being able to do that anymore and it just so happens the same day Twitter cut off meerkat was the day Twitter announced it acquired a rival company that also works on streaming video called periscope so now meerkat will be competing with whatever Twitter's cooking up the meerkats founders say the company will push forward and create its own network to not rely on Twitter's user base either way the few weeks at piggybacked on Twitter's network sure help jumpstart the app twitter is not the only one busy buying up companies facebook just acquired the shopping search engine the find and with the purchase it's shutting it down Facebook naturally is interested in new ways to make money from shopping ads and searches the find app let you compare prices at online and local retail stores Yahoo is putting a new twist on passwords you no longer have to remember your password with Yahoo's new on-demand passwords when you want to login a short number code is sent to your phone as a text message and that's your one-time code to access yahoo you'll get a different code each time you log in in other news blackberry is once again trying to woo the business world with a tablet but it's not returning to its old playbook instead it worked with IBM and Samsung to create a high security version of the samsung galaxy tab s 10.5 five its modified with a security card for voice and data encryption and software separates work apps from personal ones it runs Android not the blackberry operating system and not to be left out Microsoft is also making a fresh push into the workplace with snipe for business it's similar to the normal consumer version of skype except it has better security as well as control tools for your company's IT department and it also ties into microsoft office right now it's just a preview version so it could be a little buggy that your tech news update and you can stay updated at cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey