Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the collision of advertising and the Internet. Bitly is best known for providing a way to shorten Web hyperlinks so they ...

Link shortener Bitly today launched a major redesign and number of new features that all add up to what the company itself calls “a new Bitly.” Among these new features are ‘bitmarks,’ Bitly’s name ...

July 12, 2017 (NEW YORK) – Bitly, the world’s first and leading Link Management Platform, announced today that it received a $63 million majority investment from Spectrum Equity, a leading growth ...

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 ...

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 link shortner and analytics tool, is raising a $20 million in new funding. The company has a maturing business model and is preparing a new consumer offering around viral search. Bitly, a ...

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 ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. For ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...