Google reportedly building live streaming app dubbed YouTube Connect
(Android Central)

Google is reportedly working on its own item into the live streaming app space with a new app for Android and iPhone dubbed YouTube Connect. Meant as Google`s answer to the popular Periscope and Facebook Live, VentureBeat reports that YouTube Connect would allow users to instantly begin live streaming from anywhere with their smartphone: YouTube Connect has much of the same functionality that you`d already find with Periscope and Facebook Live, according to a source close to the matter. You can log into the app using your Google or YouTube account and immediately begin streaming from your mobile phone. There are chat and tagging features, and a `news feed` that features the latest clips from your friends or those that you`ve subscribed to on YouTube. The report goes on to note that videos would be viewable either from the YouTube Connect app or on the YouTube website on the streamer`s channel. Streamers will also reportedly have the option to archive previous broadcasts, allo...