Creating moving pictures no longer requires a dedicated app. Giphy, the online GIF database and search engine, recently launched GIF Maker, a graphics tool that only ...

If a picture paints a thousand words, a GIF says a lot more. The looping video clips, usually with a funny caption, are posted everywhere. From Facebook to Imgr to Twitter to Reditt to text messages ...

GIFs are a major form of communication online, used for reactions, punchlines to jokes, simple greetings, and just about anything else. If you've spent any time messing around with GIFs, you've ...

Giphy is un-hitching its wagon from Facebook Messenger with the release of its 2.0 iOS app. Inside you’ll get the searchability of the desktop version, as well as easy share options that allow you to ...

A GIF can be more than a well-timed punchline for a tweet or group chat. Now, the looping clips can be used to teach people new languages. As Mashable reports, GIF provider Giphy has launched a new ...

Animated GIFs are the perfect, amazing medium of the masses – even if you (like me) refuse to accept that it’s pronounced with a soft G. Is your website looking bland? Throw a GIF on it! Don’t know ...

Facebook announced Friday it was acquiring Giphy, a leading service for making and sharing GIFs that will now be part of Instagram, a leading service for making and sharing photos. Even if you’ve ...

Facebook will acquire Giphy, the web-based animated gif search engine and platform provider, Facebook confirmed today, in a deal worth around $400 million, according to a report by Axios. Facebook ...

When Facebook confirmed that it had acquired Giphy last week for a cool $400 million, the reasons weren’t immediately apparent. Giphy has only the seeds of an advertising business, and GIFs aren’t a ...

On 5 September, the online platform and digital library Giphy joined forces with the Museum of Modern GIFs (MoMG), a digital archive featuring nearly 100,000 GIFs, the popular short-form animated ...

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