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Everybody spies on everybody on the internet, right?

Why Using URL Shorteners May Expose Your Private Information

URL shorteners highlight some general problems with the Internet as well as put you at risk.
By Arthur Baxter

Meet the Startup Designing Breathtaking Office Plant Displays for Tech Giants

Google, Vine, Twitter, Bitly, Birchbox and Spotify may be very different companies, but they're the same in the respect that they're among the dozens of major brands paying as much as $100K each for a tiny, 10-person startup called The Sill to equip their NYC spaces with office plants. And we don't mean a few simple potted plants on shelves and desks—we're talking hanging flowers, greens planted into furniture and entire plant walls.
By Sage Lazzaro
(Twitter)

Bitly Gets Hacked, Asks Users to Change Passwords

Bitly users’ account information may have been compromised after a recent hack, according to a blog post published yesterday. Now, the
By Jordyn Taylor
Mr. Buckles, from a picture scraped from Linkedin, irony intact.

Dutch Student Sells His Online Info to Beat Data Marketers

By Jack Smith IV

Bitly CEO Not Surprised Twitter Finally Bought Its Own Tweet-Marketing Group

By Jack Smith IV
The Bitly Media Map

Bitly’s Interactive Media Map Will Probably Surprise You

By Jordyn Taylor

Hilary Mason Breaks Down Bitly’s Social Data APIs for Real-Time Search and Attention Spikes

By Nitasha Tiku

Bitly Raises $15 M. Round from Khosla Ventures After Giving Consumers a Reason to Subscribe

By Nitasha Tiku
(seedcamp.com)

Rejoice! Bitly Reinstitutes Easy Link Shortening

By Jessica Roy

IFTTT Integrates With Bitly, Hopefully Placating the Internet

By Kelly Faircloth
(agbeat.com)

Bitly Responds to Redesign Blowback: ‘Keep the Feedback Coming’

By Jessica Roy
How does that fish keep up his spirits in times like these? (theworstkeptsecret.com)

Unforgivable Bitly Redesign Angers Internet

By Jessica Roy
Bitly links are now "bitmarks."

Shades of Twitter and Delicious in New Bitly Release

By Adrianne Jeffries
Peter Stern, Bitly's CEO (linkedin.com)

Bitly CEO Peter Stern Says the Company Has Not Raised $20 M. [Updated]

By Nitasha Tiku and Jessica Roy
Stacy London of What not to Wear has a new startup called TKTKTKTKTK (Source: Phil Plait

Startup News: Dev Bootcamp, Incubator Deadlines, Closet Monsters From TV and Free Food

By Ben Weitzenkorn

Seven Startups That Will Pay Devs, Designers, and ‘Hustlers’ $5,000 To Move to New York City

By Nitasha Tiku
Betabeat: bringing you the finest in tech and startup news from these fine machines since before we were born. (BuzzFeed)

Startup News: Grokking Facebook Timeline for Fun and Profit

By Ben Weitzenkorn
Mr. Borthwick. (betaworks.com)

Letter from Betaworks CEO: ‘Data is the New Plastic’

By Jessica Roy
Mr. Wanamaker.

Startup News: Black Techies Meetup is Tonight

By Adrianne Jeffries
Urls come in all shapes and sizes

Bit.ly Partners With Verisign To Answer The Internet’s Big Questions

By Ben Popper
The chiefly scientific Ms. Mason

Hilary Mason Says Twitter’s URL Wrapping Won’t Have Any Effect On Bit.ly [Updated]

By Nitasha Tiku

Bit.ly Acquires Twitterfeed, Expanding Real-Time Empire

By Ben Popper

Betaworks Boss John Borthwick Bequeaths Bitly Baton

By Adrianne Jeffries

Can Betaworks Social Juice Make a Paywall Work with News.me?

By Ben Popper
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