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Yahoo to purchase Bit.ly URL shortener?

article published on 19 July, 2010

If you are an active Twitter user, you have undoubtedly used or seen the URL shortener bit.ly. Gigaom is reporting today that Yahoo is actively considering acquiring the shortening service, with interest growing over the past two months. Bit.ly is said to have raised up to $5 million in venture capital since its launch in early 2009. Although unconfirmed, Bit.ly was reportedly asking ... [ read the full article ]

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bit.ly is NOT worth 100 million $. NO URL shortener is. If ANY of them are worth anything, OneCent.US should be the most valuable based on the fact they do 10 times more than most of these services. They're rolling out new features every day and they don't resort to a foreign domain extension to lop a character off either. What's wrong with the good old US? They also donate 90% of their advertising revenue to charity. http://OneCent.US here's also their press release today:
http://www.prlog.org/10797718-twitters-t...not-scared.html
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