Dive Brief: Known as the most popular tool for shortening web URLs, Bitly is now offering a way to create links to mobile apps. Deep Links will send mobile users to in-app locations instead of web ...

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 ...

The CTO of URL shortening service Bitly details the service's operations and how it recovered from a hack earlier this year.

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 wants the world to know that it's more than just a link shortening service. Historically, it was used by Twitter users to free up more room for words in the 140 character limit. By 2011, it ...