Bitly had positioned itself as the leading URL shortener, but with its latest revamp it has disappointed many fans. Here are some alternatives.

What exactly can you do with URL shorteners, beyond just shortening URLs? The shortened URL has emerged as a gauge of the viral pulse of the web -- how to take advantage of that? The folks at bit ...

That is not the case with link-shortening company Bitly, though. CEO Peter Stern, has decided to leave, it was announced Monday, with the news being revealed in this an oddly short blogpost: “Bitly is ...

Bitly is perhaps the most popular link shortening service around, and they have finally released their official app on Android.

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 ...

Certainly that would be a huge data play, someday. Then Twitter decided it would roll out its own link shortener, and Bitly’s ability to make money from the data it was generating never ...

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 ...

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 ...

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams.

Spammers have found a way to abuse a URL shortener service destined for U.S. government social media activities in order to craft rogue .gov URLs for work-at-home scams.