New York-based link shortening service Bitly just launched a major redesign that emphasizes link sharing similar to Twitter or the once-popular bookmark service Delicious. The old Bitly centered ...

Bitly published an urgent security warning on Thursday explaining that it suspects that users’ account credentials have been compromised. The company noted that it has no evidence of unauthorized ...

You might think of Bitly simply as a service that shortens links for your Twitter feed. But to Hilary Mason, the company’s chief scientist, Bitly is building a fresh new way to know what’s going on in ...

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 ...

We’ve expected some big (data) developements from Bitly since the New York startup announced a $15 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures July. Today, chief data scientist Hilary Mason is finally ...

DataSift – which provides developers and third parties with a platform to access realtime data from Twitter, Facebook and other social sources – is on a bit of a roll. This week it announced it had ...

Twitter announced yesterday that it’s acquiring Gnip, a company that analyzes tweets, Facebook likes and Tumblr reblogs for marketers. It seems like an obvious move. Why should Twitter sit by and let ...

URL shortening service Bitly has reset all user passwords in response to being hacked. “We have reason to believe that Bitly account credentials have been compromised,” Bitly wrote in a blog post. “We ...

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 ...

Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly is today announcing the launch of Bitly Enterprise 2.0, a new version of its enterprise-friendly dashboard. The Bitly Enterprise platform, which helps businesses ...

Bitly wants the world to know that it's more than just a link shortening service. Historically, it was used by Twitter users to free up more room for words in the 140 character limit. By 2011, it was ...