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 ...

Known for saving tons of virtual space by shortening URLs, Bitly is now unwrapping the user data behind its compressed links. “We have got a lot of valuable data that we’re beginning to mine,” Bitly ...

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 launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and ...

Bitly had pretty much positioned itself as the leading URL shortener in a sea of way too many options, by offering its users a set of robust features – analytics, Bitly bundles, and more. With its ...

Mark Josphephson is the CEO of Bitly. Catch his talk at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. The year was 2011. Bitly was at a crossroads. Over the previous three ...

Bitly, the popular link management platform, was in a little bit of a rut in 2013. Though they were doing well, link shortening was fast becoming an impacted space, and just shortening links wasn’t ...

Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the company itself calls “a new Bitly.” Among these new features are ‘bitmarks,’ Bitly’s name ...

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 ...

Bitly, a popular service that allows users to create shortened or even customized URLs, and track how that shortened link is shared over time, issued a mysterious security update Thursday evening. In ...