March 11th, 2013

Bitly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down From The URL Shortening And Analytics Company

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In a statement on its blog today, Bitly has announced that CEO Peter Stern has stepped down as CEO. The reason is that Stern is to “pursue other interests”; further details aren’t known at this time. The NYC-based company has raised $28.5 close to $23 million to date, with the last round being a monster $15 million one by O’Reilly, RRE and Khosla last July. Stern was the… → Read More

April 1st, 2011

Maximize Your Tweets with 41url.com

In 2011 everyone should know that links are the currency of the web. And Twitter is one of the primary mediums for link exchange. A tweet is 140 characters long, and there is absolutely no dearth of link shortening services to allow you to cram as many links as possible into a tweet. But is that really exchanging value? The basic principle of supply and demand suggests that the more quantity there… → Read More