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Why Meta has been ordered to sell GIF platform GIPHY (Updated) The move is a milestone moment The CMA’s investigation Facebookagreed to buy Giphy for $315 millionin May 2020. Announcing the deal in a blogpost, Vishal Shah, then-Facebook VP of Product, said the GIF-hosting platform would join the Instagram team: The announcement came amid growing concerns about Facebook’s power. While the purchase price was small compared to the $19 billion that Facebook paid for Instagram, the GIF site has a vast reach....

Why Meta has been ordered to sell GIF platform GIPHY (Updated) The move is a milestone moment The CMA’s investigation Facebookagreed to buy Giphy for $315 millionin May 2020. Announcing the deal in a blogpost, Vishal Shah, then-Facebook VP of Product, said the GIF-hosting platform would join the Instagram team: The announcement came amid growing concerns about Facebook’s power. While the purchase price was small compared to the $19 billion that Facebook paid for Instagram, the GIF site has a vast reach....

Why more and more founders are moving to Manchester The city of Oasis, football, vegetarianism, and… tech startups? A circular economy of talent The talent market is a pretty bleak place to hang out right now. There’s lots of jobs, not enough people to fill them, and agaping digital skills gap. Universities in Manchester continually churn outtop-class graduates with a range of specialties. Research at the University of Manchester ranks as world-leading, and it’s the top institution for social and environmental impact....

Why more and more founders are moving to Manchester The city of Oasis, football, vegetarianism, and… tech startups? A circular economy of talent The talent market is a pretty bleak place to hang out right now. There’s lots of jobs, not enough people to fill them, and agaping digital skills gap. Universities in Manchester continually churn outtop-class graduates with a range of specialties. Research at the University of Manchester ranks as world-leading, and it’s the top institution for social and environmental impact....

Why NASA is going full Michael Bay and attacking an asteroid It’s the world’s first planetary defense test mission Life disregarding art Smaller asteroids frequently strikeEarth, but most burn up in the atmosphere before they reach our planet’s surface. That doesn’t mean we have nothing to fear, however. Just try telling the dinosaurs thatspacerocks aren’t dangerous. You can’t — because they were wiped out by an asteroid around 66 million years ago....