How these college dropouts beat Harvard grads in competition for jobs

Enstitute's fellows are placed in two-year apprenticeship programs, an alternative to college. They pickup the technical skills that are coveted by employers.

Bitly CEO Peter Stern abruptly resigns to ‘pursue other interests’

Bitly CEO Peter Stern has resigned from the link-shortening startup to “pursue other interests."

Codecademy adds API training with YouTube, NPR, Bit.ly, and 6 other services to help new devs build actual products

Today Codecademy is launching a new partnership with nine companies to help budding developers learn APIs and create actual functioning sites, projects, and even products.

Cyberhoarding: The 5 best services for saving stuff online

We compare five content-saving services to figure out which reigns supreme in the quest to keep your stuff organized.

Digg relaunch will draw from Realtime, a new search engine for hot links

When the social news tool Digg relaunches next week — Wednesday to be exact — it will get help from a new product called Realtime, a search engine that surfaces links being shared the most across the Web.

Realtime is …

Big money for tiny URLs: Bitly raises $15M

Link-shortening service Bitly closed a new $15 million round of funding, the startup announced today.

Bitly is primarily used to transform long URLs that contain a large number of characters into shorter, manageable links, which are easily understood by social …

Bitly makes link shortening easy again after users revolted

Link-shortening and bookmarking service Bitly has revised its site design after users complained that shortening links became too complicated, the company announced today in a blog post.

The site launched an extensive redesign last week that turned users accounts into …

Bitly launches new site, makes link shortening more complicated

Updated at 3:40pm PDT with a response from Bitly about negative reactions to the redesign

The simple link-shortening service Bitly just got a major redesign. What started as a way to make long links short enough to fit into a …

Funding daily: go shopping for vintage clothes and Russian furniture

We’ve got a lot of stories this Wednesday for you. Click each link below to learn more about the day’s funding news.

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Bitly reportedly raising $20M and launching a viral search engine

Four-year-old link shortening service Bitly is reportedly working on raising a $20 million funding round and launching a few new products. The startup has apparently also moved out of incubator Betaworks and into its own space, reports The Verge.

If …