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, ...

URL-shortening is where the money is. Bit.ly has secured $15 million in its latest round of funding led by Khosla Ventures. The URL--shortening service allows users to easily shrink a URL and use it ...

Update: Bitly says that the root of the problem was Google Safebrowsing, a service provided by the internet giant to browsers such as Firefox and Chrome, that highlights URLs that contain malware or ...