Elyse Betters Picaro is the former Editor-in-Chief of Pocket-lint and the former Operations Manager for Valnet's Consumer Tech brands, including Pocket-lint, Android Police, and XDA. She is based in ...

In real life, there's a Starbucks and/or a McDonald's at every turn. But on the Internet, instead of coffee and fast food, you can't hardly surf a mile without seeing several memes and animated GIFs.

There is no shortage of GIFs on Tumblr. According to the company, more than 23 million of the animated loops are posted on its service every day. That is a lot of (hard-G) GIFs. There’s also no ...

The GIF, or graphics interchange format, was introduced to the world by Compuserve in 1987. The compressed format was the ideal for performing image transfers across the slow modem connections of the ...

How do you pronounce "GIF"? In Silicon Valley, it's pronounced 'cha-ching.' Giphy, a service for finding, making and sharing the entertaining, bite-size little video clips known as GIFs, announced ...