Google and Facebook are jumping into the URL shortening fray, but the explosion of link shortening services comes with some security concerns as well.

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As Google and Facebook enter the URL shortening game, there likely won't be much room left for the small players who pioneered this space. It will be up to them to ...

Google says that its service will be more secure than the goodness-knows-how-many URL shortening services that already exist (tinyURL, bit.ly, tr.im, at least 50 others).

You can shorten a URL by using an URL shortener website, which will shrink your URL for free. Popular link shorteners on the internet include Bitly, TinyURL, and Rebrandly. You'll need a premium ...

Shortening service TinyURL has seen its traffic sink since it was replaced by bit.ly as the default URL shortener on Twitter, and a third service tr.im has flat out given up.

URL shortening service Tr.im will not shut down as its parent company Nambu considers future options for company.

URL shortening services have become quite popular lately, primarily due to the restricted length of "tweets" on Twitter. Danny Sullivan compared several ...

Web URLs can get really, really long and that, in turn, leads to all sorts of problems. The first problem is one of simple usability. URLs that are 50, 100, or even 200 characters in length will ...

The Su.pr dashboard. Click the image for a larger view. StumbleUpon has launched a new URL shortening service known as su.pr. The site is currently an invite-only beta, but you can follow ...

Tr.im, the popular URL-shortening service for Twitter and other social networks has found a new lease on life. After announcing it would shut down by the end of the year, the team behind Tr.im has ...