Bitly published an urgent security warning on Thursday explaining that it suspects that users’ account credentials have been compromised. The company noted that it has no evidence of unauthorized ...

Bitly, the URL shortening service, has been the victim of a hack. CEO Mark Josephson posted an "Urgent Security Update" on the Bitly blog today, stating that they found reason to believe that user ...

Bitly is announcing that it has raised $63 million in additional funding from Spectrum Equity — a deal that gives the growth equity firm a majority stake in Bitly. Founded in 2008, the company was ...

It seems like an obvious move. Why should Twitter sit by and let third-party companies profit from its massive content output without getting in on the fun? Still, marketing groups like Gnip have been ...

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. In ...

New York-based link shortening service Bitly just launched a major redesign that emphasizes link sharing similar to Twitter or the once-popular bookmark service Delicious. The old Bitly centered ...

Twitter announced yesterday that it’s acquiring Gnip, a company that analyzes tweets, Facebook likes and Tumblr reblogs for marketers. It seems like an obvious move. Why should Twitter sit by and let ...

DataSift – which provides developers and third parties with a platform to access realtime data from Twitter, Facebook and other social sources – is on a bit of a roll. This week it announced it had ...