Facebook new features $400 million : Facebook to acquire GIF website Giphy

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Facebook to acquire GIF website Giphy

Giphy will become a part of Instagram, the photo-sharing site owned by Facebook. Its GIF library, which may integrate with other apps, are going to be further integrated into Instagram and other Facebook-owned apps

Facebook Inc is acquiring Giphy, a well-liked website for creating and sharing animated images, or GIFs, Facebook said during a blog post on Friday.

The cost, which wasn't disclosed, was placed at around $400 million by news website Axios. The companies didn't immediately answer requests for comment. The announcement comes at a time when the most important social media network is under scrutiny from regulators over antitrust concerns.

Giphy will become a part of Instagram, the photo-sharing site owned by Facebook. Its GIF library, which may integrate with other apps, are going to be further integrated into Instagram and other Facebook-owned apps.

"People will still be ready to upload GIFs; developers and API partners will still have an equivalent access to GIPHY's APIs; and GIPHY's creative community will still be able to create great content," said Vishal Shah, Instagram's vice chairman of product, within the blog post.

"We will still make GIPHY openly available to the broader ecosystem," Giphy said during a post on blogging website Medium. Facebook's blog post said 50% of Giphy's traffic comes from Facebook's apps, with half that coming from Instagram.

About Giphy :

In February 2013, Giphy was founded by Alex Chung and Jace Cooke.The idea for the business came when the pair was having breakfast, musing on the rising trend of purely visual communication.

When Chung and Cooke first launched Giphy, the web site functioned solely as an enquiry engine for GIFs. According to Chung, Giphy attracted around 1,000,000 users during its first week and therefore the figure leveled bent 300,000.

Giphy features what its founders called as "conversational search" wherein contents are delivered to users' conversations through an enquiry box found in their messaging.

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