So, for example, the Facebook app (bit.ly/1xFM93M) takes a ton of your information. However, it keeps a lot of it to itself, has a clearly defined privacy policy and people expect Facebook to take ...

Remember several months ago when both Google and Facebook decided to get into the URL shortening game? We wondered if Bit.ly, the market leader, was fu.kd? And we were hardly alone. But nearly a year ...

The default link shortener on Twitter, bit.ly, just keeps getting bigger. In March, 3.4 billion bit.ly-shortened links were clicked on, up from 2.7 billion in February and only 87 million a year ago.

Bit.ly, the web's most popular link shortening service (thanks in big part to Twitter's semi-official endorsement), has added the ability to quickly short-link pictures and other files through a ...