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.

LONDON, Jan. 30, 2024 -- NordVPN, a leading cybersecurity company, launches its new experimental product from the NordLabs platform. Link Checker is a manual URL-checking tool that enables users to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The simple link-shortening service Bitly just got a major redesign. What started as a way to make long links short enough to fit into a tweet has evolved into a social link-sharing site. Bitly is ...

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 ...

Bitly, famous for its ubiquitous link-shortening service, has announced new deep-linking functionality designed to help marketers increase mobile app engagement and installs. The New York-based ...

Popular URL shortener Bitly and search and social software company Moz announced this week they were teaming up to provide Moz users with richer data about links, replacing Moz's current source for ...

As if to prove that nothing on the Internet is sacred, it turns out that even using URL shorteners can compromise your privacy and security. Found by security researcher Shubham Shah and Christina ...

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 ...

"the footprint of Bitly is so large." Josephson pointed out this will be the fifth tech company he’s worked for — he was previously CEO of a local media company called Outside.in, which sold to AOL ...

But fresh leadership is on the way. “We’re working hard to regain the momentum,” says Sam Mandel, Betaworks’ head of corporate development, who had taken over as the interim president of Bitly. “We’ve ...