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 ...

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 ...

Although some bristle at the conjoining of two highly charged words, the term “data science” appears to be sticking. It’s sticking because it represents something real going on the world of business, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

The company that simplifies your links is giving the same treatment to its revenue strategy, focusing on providing better data to marketers. Bitly began in 2008 by solving a simple problem for ...

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 ...

URL shortening service Bitly announced a security breach regarding account credentials today. Here's what you need to know. Bitly announced that account credentials including users email addresses, ...

If you have an account with the URL-shortening service Bitly you should read the "urgent security update" they have just published. Bitly says it has reason to believe that its systems have been ...

"the footprint of Bitly is so large." Josephson pointed out this will be the fifth tech company he’s worked for — he was previously CEO of a local media company called Outside.in, which sold to AOL ...