<div dir="auto"><span class="gmail_chip gmail_plusreply" dir="auto"><a href="mailto:ali@hussein.me.ke" style="color:#15c;text-decoration:underline">@Ali Hussein</a></span><span> are we seeing this in Kenya soon?</span><div dir="auto"><span><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span>Regards</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Richard Hill via InternetPolicy</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021, 4:52 pm<br>Subject: [Internet Policy] UK competition regulator orders Facebook to sell Giphy<br>To: ISOC Internet Policy <<a href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-8075234714981015688WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has asked Meta (formerly Facebook) to sell the GIF database and search engine Giphy, a company that Meta acquired about a year and a half ago. The competition regulator decided that Facebook’s acquisition of Giphy will “reduce competition” between social media platforms and “that the deal has already removed Giphy as a potential challenger in the display advertising market.”<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br>See:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">  <a href="https://www.techcircle.in/2021/12/01/uk-competition-regulator-orders-meta-to-sell-giphy-says-acquisition-anti-competitive" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.techcircle.in/2021/12/01/uk-competition-regulator-orders-meta-to-sell-giphy-says-acquisition-anti-competitive</a> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Richard<u></u><u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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