Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

Today Bitly announced a new Bitly Labs project called Realtime, a service for finding the most clicked on Bitly links. Realtime, now in private beta, allows users to filter searches by social network, ...

Bitly is best known for providing a way to shorten Web hyperlinks so they leave more room for headlines and comments in 140-character tweets on Twitter. It's still doing that, but for years it has ...

UPDATE 5/17: Bitly CEO Peter Stern reached out to Betabeat Thursday to dispute much of what was reported in The Verge yesterday. “While I would be delighted to report that we raised a significant ...

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 ...

Marketing folks love click stats, and tiny URLs spread clicks across numerous spaces in social media. Google, Facebook, Twitter and others already have their respective shortening service. URL ...

Although some bristle at the conjoining of two highly charged words, the term “data science” appears to be sticking. It’s sticking because it represents something real going on the world of business, ...

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 ...

Mark Josphephson is the CEO of Bitly. Catch his talk at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. The year was 2011. Bitly was at a crossroads. Over the previous three ...

Four-year-old link shortening service Bitly is reportedly working on raising a $20 million funding round and launching a few new products. The startup has apparently also moved out of incubator ...