Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock to comply with UK regulator order

Shutterstock said today it would buy animated-images platform Giphy from Meta for $53m in cash, months after the Facebook owner had agreed to divest the company on competition concerns. Britain’s competition regulator last year ordered Meta to sell Giphy over fears that it could deny or limit competitors such as Snapchat and Twitter access to the target’s content. Meta had [...]