Yesterday, social media giant Facebook (FB +0.23%) announced that it had acquired GIPHY, one of the leading online repositories for GIFs, which are short looping videos that social media users use to ...

Facebook bought GIPHY for $400 million Friday, with plans to more tightly integrate with Instagram. Axios was the first to report the deal. “By bringing Instagram and GIPHY together, we can make it ...

Britain's Competition and Markets Authority said it has provisionally found that Facebook's purchase of Giphy will harm competition between social media platforms. It warned that the deal could also ...

Facebook posted about its plans after buying GIPHY on its blog. While Facebook already used GIPHY’s API for WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, and Facebook proper, the company is planning to integrate ...

Once upon a time, Facebook did not support GIFs. In fact, there was a time when Facebook supported the file format and then took that support away. Developers tried to hack it. One group succeeded, in ...

Facebook has bought the GIF-sharing service Giphy, which will now be a part of Instagram. It plans to integrate Giphy's library more deeply into Instagram (where GIFs are especially prevalent in ...

Facebook announced Friday that it is acquiring the animated-picture platform Giphy. The deal is reportedly valued at $400 million. Facebook will integrate Giphy into the Instagram app. Facebook ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Facebook on Friday announced it has acquired Giphy, a company with a massive GIF library for users to add to their text messages ...

Facebook has agreed to purchase Giphy for $400 million. The deal was announced on Friday morning on the Facebook news portal. Facebook did not mention any changes coming to Giphy – like removing it ...