Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows ...

URL shortener and analytics service Bit.ly has been working on a new set of products, being referred to as “Bit.ly Now” internally, which will define the next stage of the company’s growth. The ...

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 ...

As I write the first draft of this post, the bloggers of the world are a-twitter with the ramifications of new shortened URL products being launched by Google and Facebook. Though neither will be ...

Bit.ly, a URL-shortening service made popular by its barnacle-like relationship to Twitter, is one of the Web's most-watched start-ups, and Om Malik has theorized that Bit.ly and its copycats may be ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Bitly Inc., a global leader in link and QR Code management, is evolving its role as core infrastructure for how businesses create, protect, and measure digital ...

If you're an Amazon.com Inc. affiliate, you may notice that your affiliate links are large blocks of text that could be too cumbersome for you and your customers. This is especially noticeable if you ...

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 ...

Link-shortening service Bit.ly is the latest company to suffer a security breach, and the company is warning users to take action immediately. Bit.ly, which lets users shorten links and track ...

Since it became the default URL shortener for Twitter, Bit.ly has been growing like crazy. And as we learned from Spider-Man, with great power, comes great responsibility. Bit.ly has started warning ...

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 ...

Computer web browsers are still the most frequently used mediums for accessing online content, trailed by smartphones, tablets and gaming consoles, according to new research from Bitly. Bitly posits ...