Last week, the family of the man who invented the GIF, Stephen Wilhite, announced that he had passed away at the age of 74 due to complications from COVID-19. While he claimed to have “never got 1 ...

WhatsApp is making changes to how users share GIFs on the instant messaging platform. The Meta-owned company is switching its GIF provider, a move that will alter how GIFs are sent and displayed in ...

Facebook is betting on the potency of GIFs by acquiring Giphy, whose technology will be integrated into Instagram, which Facebook acquired in 2012. The price was reported by multiple media outlets to ...