Today link shortening service Bit.ly introduced a redesign that turns it into something more than a link shortener, compromising what made Bit.ly so desirable in the first place. RELATED: The Manliest ...

The popular link shortening service Bit.ly (which has billions of clicks on its links per month) has just announced that it will allow users to shorten links and automatically turn those links in to ...

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Just what the world needs, another URL shortener, right? Google seems to think so, and it’s now making its own Goo.gl service widely available to anyone — complete with tracking and statistics — for ...

It looks like short links are here to stay, at least for a while longer. Bit.ly, the largest independent link shortening service out there, closed a $9 million Series B financing. (Correction: An ...

A friend asks you for examples of a certain kind of music. Your boss asks for the best options for a hardware purchase. Link shortening service bit.ly now offers a way to collect links in smart, ...

There is a simple rule on the Internet when it comes to passing links around: the easier it is to share links, the more links will be shared. Bit.ly and other URL shorteners proved this with their ...