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Court adjourns Facebook parent Meta’s Giphy tie-up appeal, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

Facebook announced the purchase of Giphy in May 2020 for $315 million. A British court on Thursday adjourned an appeal by Facebook‘s owner Meta against a competition regulator ruling that it should be forced to sell online GIF creator Giphy. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in November found Meta’s purchase of Giphy — which supplies animated GIFs or mini videos to major social networks — would give the US behemoth too much market share. Adjourning the case at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal after four days of […]

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US Chamber sides with Facebook in antitrust appeal, Marketing & Advertising News, ET BrandEquity

U.S. Chamber sides with Facebook in antitrust appeal The powerful US Chamber of Commerce filed a brief on Monday, urging a D.C. appeals court to reject an appeal by a big group of US states to revive their antitrust lawsuit against Meta Platform’s Facebook. The Chamber, along with the Computer and Communications Industry Association and Business Roundtable, argued that the district court judge hearing the case was right to toss it out because the states had waited too long to file their case. Judge James Boasberg of […]

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