We’ve expected some big (data) developements from Bitly since the New York startup announced a $15 million Series C led by Khosla Ventures July. Today, chief data scientist Hilary Mason is finally ...

URL shortener Bitly has opened its social data API allowing developers to gain access to its analytics showing what content has been shared on its service across social networks. Its API comes with ...

Bitly’s API, used by developers who embed more than 300 million links into their products and applications each month, will also move onto IBM Cloud. IBM’s globally dispersed cloud network and load ...

Bitly has launched a set of social APIs that includes real-time search, attention spikes and metadata about URLs. Real-time search allows a user to run a query and get back the top URLs and stories.

A cyber attack targeting TV channel MSNBC highlights cybercriminals’ abuse of the public’s trust in news outlets and websites, says Websense Security Labs. The security firm said its researchers have ...

Hackers are using the custom shortened links of real media outlets, including MSNBC and Fox News, to send readers to fake news sites instead. In a blog post published Monday, Websense Security Labs ...

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 working with Symantec to clean up malicious links, the result of API keys left visible on the Web You have to give spammers credit for effort: Symantec found a spam campaign that manages to ...