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In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...

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, 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 ...

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, 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once upon a time not very long ago, the link shortening business appeared to be the tech world’s next golden egg. Site’s like TinyURL and Bitly were able to build fully-realized business models by ...

When Peter Stern graduated from college, he built weapons. This was 1989, the sunset of the Cold War. At Sikorsky Aircraft, Stern and his team devised a system that let helicopter pilots shoot stuff ...