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 ...

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 ...

Bitly just posted an update to its blog noting that it has been listening to the feedback it has gotten since revamping its service last week and is making some changes to speed up its essential ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

UPDATE 5/17: Bitly CEO Peter Stern reached out to Betabeat Thursday to dispute much of what was reported in The Verge yesterday. “While I would be delighted to report that we raised a significant ...

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 URL-shortening service has been in troubled waters for a few weeks now, and it again (at the time of writing) was non-functional for a few hours. Due to general issues with its ...

Bitly has raised $14 million in a few years, and shrinks more than 8 billion Web addresses a month. And it's done all that without anyone running the company full time. Until now. Technology vet Peter ...

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 ...