“Why would you ever want to make money?” joked the co-founder and CEO of Giphy, Alex Chung. “That’s what venture capital’s for.” Chung’s says his website now gets 65 million unique ...

Giphy, the betaworks-backed search engine for gifs, is today opening up a slice of its $2.5 million Series A on the equity crowdfunding site Alphaworks. Alphaworks is a site run by Nick Chirls, in ...

The U.K. government’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ordered Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. FB to sell the graphics interchange format (GIF) files platform Giphy, which it ...

Meta is offloading Giphy — which maintains the world’s biggest database of animated GIFs — to content marketplace company Shutterstock, taking a steep loss on the forced sale. Shutterstock ...

Meta had reportedly paid $400 million for New York-based Giphy in 2020. A year later the deal was challenged by Britain's Competition and Markets Authority and its successful campaign was the ...

Reddit is joining the GIF party with its new partnership with Giphy, a massive online hub where internet users upload and share GIFs. The new partnership, which will begin rolling out today ...

Giphy, a major search platform for gifs, on Thursday released an app for DIY gifs, immediately unleashing the internet with a flood of moving selfies with animated pizza crowns, partying cats and ...

Talk about a fire sale. With limited interest in GIF platforms and UK regulators forcing a sale, Meta has decided to sell Giphy to Shutterstock for a mere $53 million. After purchasing it for $ ...

Stock-photo website Shutterstock on Tuesday said it will acquire Giphy and its online repository of animated images for $53 million, after UK antitrust regulators forced Meta to spin off the ...

By Adam Satariano LONDON — Meta said on Tuesday that it would sell Giphy, the online repository for video clips of pets, facial expressions and other animated GIFs, a major defeat for the social ...