Mac only: You've got no shortage of ways to quickly shorten URLs, like bookmarklets or text replacement apps, but most require mouse usage somewhere—and, as most Quicksilver addicts know, nothing is ...

Url shortening announcements are like buses. You wait for ages then three come along at once. We have already brought you news of Google’s url shortening service and the Facebook solution, now Bit.ly, ...

Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows ...

Although Tiny.url was the first URL shortening service back in 2002, several other competitors - all using ad revenue to pay for the facility - have entered the URL shortening marketplace. Bit.ly said ...

There was a time when TinyURL was all you needed to get control of a monster-sized URL that you wanted to share with friends. Now, Google and Facebook are getting into the link shortening business, ...

To find a Web page you wanted in the pre-Google era, you often had to guess at its address. Was General Motors generalmotors.com, general-motors.com, or gm.com? This led to all kinds of trouble—a ...

URL shortening service Bit.ly announced late Thursday that it raised $10 million in a Series B round led by RRE Ventures, with participation from new-comer AOL Ventures and previous investors O’Reilly ...

Sharing links on Twitter can be quite a pain when you need to input a web address that consumes most of the space you have at your disposal for your micro-message. The startup realized that quickly ...

When the world's 20 million or so Twitter users click links in their feeds, most of the time, they're routed through bit.ly's URL shortening service, like sands through an hourglass. By channeling ...

Yahoo isn’t the only site that is undergoing a homepage change. The URL-shortening service Bit.ly did a slight reworking of its main site today as well. And not surprisingly, it’s very Twitter-focused ...

By some counts, there are more than 100 shortening services online. In March, Bit.ly, the most popular URL shortener, raised $2 million in venture funding. The news earned its investors some derision, ...