Bitly, the URL shortening service, has been the victim of a hack. CEO Mark Josephson posted an "Urgent Security Update" on the Bitly blog today, stating that they found reason to believe that user ...

Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

Bitly is best known for providing a way to shorten Web hyperlinks so they leave more room for headlines and comments in 140-character tweets on Twitter. It's still doing that, but for years it has ...

The simple link-shortening service Bitly just got a major redesign. What started as a way to make long links short enough to fit into a tweet has evolved into a social link-sharing site. Bitly is ...

Link shortening service bitly has just made its Bitly Pro features available to all its users, free of charge. In beta since 2009, Bitly Pro served over 10K shortened domains, including P.Diddy’s ...

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Bitly began in 2008 by solving a simple problem for consumers: Links were too long for Twitter’s 140-character limit. So it shortened them. As far as technical solutions go, building a link shortener ...

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It was only a matter of time before Bitly built something with its giant mass of data, and now we can finally see the fruit of the company’s labors with today’s release: a completely new set of social ...

Link-shortening and bookmarking service Bitly has revised its site design after users complained that shortening links became too complicated, the company announced today in a blog post. The site ...

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Link shortening and analytics company Bitly is announcing the hire of two new executives — Chief Technology Officer Rob Platzer and Vice President of Marketing Melissa Wallace. The company’s current ...