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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

First Connections Platform to join IWF demonstrating the company's commitment to user safety while setting industry standards NEW YORK, Dec. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitly Inc., the world's leading ...

Is Bitly quietly becoming a platform company? The link cruncher rolled out Tuesday the Bitly Certified Partner Program with inaugural partners Percolate, Spredfast, Buffer, Sprinklr, IFTTT, Dynamic ...

Bitly is announcing that it has raised $63 million in additional funding from Spectrum Equity — a deal that gives the growth equity firm a majority stake in Bitly. Founded in 2008, the company was ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. For ...

We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.