Bitly, famous for its ubiquitous link-shortening service, has announced new deep-linking functionality designed to help marketers increase mobile app engagement and installs. The New York-based ...

Bitly is best known as the firm that helps keep Twitter posts at or below 140-characters. But every time the link-shortening system truncates a publisher or brand site URL, it's gathering 20 data ...

Bitly is sitting in a gold mine of third party data. Incorporating mobile apps into that data will only improve the company's position of being able to deliver anonymous and detailed data on users.

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 ...

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 pages, if the ...

When it comes to exciting app launch news, a link shortener probably isn’t exactly high on your list. But for those of us that shorten dozens of links every day for social media, having a dedicated ...

In this day and age, most of the links that we see on social media, and even in emails, are shortened links. And this is due to the character limits that we have on these platforms – with Twitter ...

Depending on your point of view, URL shortening is either a very useful tool or horrible for the Internet. Still, some apps like Twitter pretty much require URL shortening in order to share anything, ...

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HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - On today’s Geek Beat, a mobile app is giving people convenience and security of shorter links on their phones. It’s called Bitly and is a service that helps shorten URL ...

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 ...

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