{"id":7421,"date":"2022-10-18T12:40:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/facebook-owner-meta-to-sell-giphy-after-uk-watchdog-confirms-ruling\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T12:40:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T10:40:44","slug":"facebook-owner-meta-to-sell-giphy-after-uk-watchdog-confirms-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/facebook-owner-meta-to-sell-giphy-after-uk-watchdog-confirms-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CMA says takeover of gif creation website limits choice for social media users<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s parent company, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/meta\">Meta<\/a>, has been ordered by the UK competition watchdog to sell the gif creation website Giphy, the first time the regulator has blocked a deal struck by a big Silicon Valley company.<\/p>\n<p>The Competition and Markets Authority <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/nov\/30\/uk-competition-watchdog-orders-meta-to-sell-gif-website-giphy\">told Meta in November <\/a>that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/aug\/12\/facebook-could-be-forced-by-uk-watchdog-to-sell-gif-creator-giphy\">only way to resolve competition concerns was to dispose of Giphy,<\/a> the largest supplier of animated gifs to social networks such as Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter, which it acquired two years ago for $400m (\u00a3290m).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/oct\/18\/facebook-meta-sell-giphy-cma\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a9f4c8e4a5b8954d0f8c471f8d3da731dc247fec\/0_376_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=dd8810bf1325197052a969a25d42c494\" title=\"Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling\" \/>CMA says takeover of gif creation website limits choice for social media users<br \/>\nFacebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, has been ordered by the UK competition watchdog to sell the gif creation website Giphy, the first time the regulator has blocked a deal struck by a big Silicon Valley company.<br \/>\nThe Competition and Markets Authority told Meta in November that the only way to resolve competition concerns was to dispose of Giphy, the largest supplier of animated gifs to social networks such as Snapchat, TikTok and Twitter, which it acquired two years ago for $400m (\u00a3290m). Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMA says takeover of gif creation website limits choice for social media users Facebook\u2019s parent company, Meta, has been ordered by the UK competition watchdog to sell the gif creation website Giphy, the first time the regulator has blocked a deal struck by a big Silicon Valley company. The Competition and Markets Authority told Meta &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/facebook-owner-meta-to-sell-giphy-after-uk-watchdog-confirms-ruling\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook owner Meta to sell Giphy after UK watchdog confirms ruling<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}