We use URL shortening services so often these days we're seldom even aware of them. Until, that is, one of them fails. Today, one of the most popular of these, Bitly, stopped working for some users.

Shortening an Internet address makes it easier to share important links with other members in your organization. Bitly is a Betaworks company owned by Bitly Incorporated, and it is the world's largest ...

If you're an Amazon.com Inc. affiliate, you may notice that your affiliate links are large blocks of text that could be too cumbersome for you and your customers. This is especially noticeable if you ...

Don't call it "link shortening." That was the old Bitly, back when one of the most pressing concerns in digital was sharing links too long for Twitter's character count. And back when Bitly was the ...

Peter Kafka covered media and technology, and their intersection, at Vox. Many of his stories can be found in his Kafka on Media newsletter, and he also hosts the Recode Media podcast. Techland, like ...

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 ...