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 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Bitly was known as the de facto Twitter link shortener back in 2008. As that business commoditized – and Twitter, Google and other platforms released their own versions – Bitly recognized its real ...

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 ...

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 ...