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 ...

A worthwhile question that web developers are asking lately: what exactly can you do with URL shorteners, beyond just shortening URLs? Past innovations focused on statistical tracking (cli.gs) and ...

Usually when the CEO of a company steps down, there will be a big announcement about it. Sometimes CEO will even make a big statement, thanking everyone who he or she worked with over the years, like ...

According to the Bitly blog: In the week since our release, we’re already making adjustments, so that saving and shortening links in the new bitly is a whole lot easier. Now, when you paste a link ...

Google recently announced they will shut down their URL shortener, Goo.gl. Google will cease service for any new or anonymous users on April 13. Although existing users can continue to use the goo.gl ...

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, 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 launched a major update and redesign of its link shortening service today that, in the eyes of many of its users, de-emphasizes some of its core feature. Instead of being able to just copy and ...

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 ...