A surplus of Web and mobile apps that help us make and use GIFs have hit the market, but behind the fun they deliver for users, there is booming business potential. And these startups creating ...

Microsoft announced that the Windows screenshot and screencast Snipping Tool utility is getting support for exporting ...

The gif database made the comments in filings with the UK's competition watchdog. It said it has seen a decline in popularity and that only Meta would buy the company. Giphy has taken aim at its ...

Additionally, the company announced that Echograph creator ... Thursday morning and signals Vimeo as the latest entrant into a GIF and short-video battlefield that is quickly becoming crowded.

Early in the days of the web, when the internet was turning into a mass medium with possibilities for mixing images and sound, a file format known as the GIF was used to create miniature ...

The Internet Archive made it easier to search for '90s-era GIFs. GifCities contains millions of animations from the decade of ...

It needed a way to crunch them down. So the company approached Eddie Kohler, a Harvard computer scientist, in 2013 to help with its GIF-resizing process. This resulted in a platform that was ...

Watch this brief history of how the GIF has been used for business over the years: Spend some time on Animation Factory's website and you may come away confused. There are more than 500,000 ...

[Image: Giphy/ZaharovEvgeniy/iStock (frame)]In 1999, the GIF hit a snag when controversy regarding the patent license on the compression format flared up between the IT company Unisys and Compuserve.

It feels like the animated GIF is having a huge renaissance on the Internet. To wit… But here's the shocking truth: the GIF is actually on the decline. According to W3Techs, the PNG format just ...

Editor’s Note: This story originally published in March 2018. We’re republishing the piece following news that Stephen Wilhite, one of the lead creators of the GIF, died earlier this month ...

We talk to Philip Intile, a rising star in the GIF world and the 16-year-old founder of the GIF Artist Collective. The collective is two-fold: there’s the public collective in the form of the ...