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GIPHY

Facebook Acquires GIPHY, Data Credits and Critical Suppliers, SDK Insights

Posted onMonday, May 18, 2020Thursday, February 4, 2021 Author by Ben Thompson

The GIPHY acquisition makes sense for Facebook, but for more pragmatic reasons than malicious ones.

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