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- Microsoft enhances Bing with Wolfram Alpha support
- Microsoft is partnering with search rival Wolfram Alpha and rolling out a number of revamps to its Bing portal in an effort to better compete with market leader Google. The news follows Microsoft's recent search deals with Facebook and Twitter and comes as research shows Bing’s share of the...
- Articles 2009-11-11
- Bing Travel's Lack of Back-Up Shows Vulnerabilities
- Over the weekend, an electrical fire at a Seattle data center shut down several Web sites including Microsoft Corp.'s much-hyped travel search engine, Bing Travel. The fire started Thursday night in Fisher Plaza, an area that houses studios and servers for Web sites and television. While Bing Travel was offline, Microsoft diverted users...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
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- Travel Roundup: Bing Travel's Shutdown, Spirit Airlines Buys Air Jamaica?, Weekend's Third Amtrak Fatality and More
- Electrical fire shuts down Bing Travel -- An electrical fire in Seattle shut down Bing Travel, Microsoft Corp.'s new search engine, for 36 hours over Independence Day weekend. The fire started Thursday night in Fisher Plaza, an area that houses studios and servers for Web sites and television. While Bing Travel was offline,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Bing Travel Arrives
- TechCrunch submits: By Robin Wauters Microsoft MSFT Thursday morning announced that it is rolling out Bing Travel, one of the verticals it’s focusing much of its attention on when it comes to the recently unveiled “decision engine” the company set out to conquer market share...
- External links 2009-06-04
- Kayak Asks Microsoft's Bing Travel to Stop Being a Copycat
- It looks like the travel metasearch wars are heating up, and this time, it's being handled like a third grade fight. Kayak is accusing Microsoft's Bing Travel formerly Farecast of copying Kayak's interface. I believe the conversation went something like this: by Brett Snyder
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Find Gadgets, Travel Destinations, Yoga Poses Visually with Bing
- We've given Bing a fair share of ink here at Business Hacks. Microsoft's underdog search engine is doing some innovative things, and in our totally unscientific reader poll, we found Bing earned a respectable 30 percent share compared to Google's 48 percent. Well,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- Bing! Microsoft Prepares for War with Its Revamped Search Engine
- Erick Schonfeld submits: Today, Microsoft MSFT publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss. The home page features a rotation of stunning photography, for instance, which...
- External links 2009-05-28
- A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb? [BoomTown]
- Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and launched at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft MSFT search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome entertainment gossip blogger–beat out "Transformers" hottie Megan Fox and "Twilight"...
- News items 2009-11-30
- Bing Gets More Mobile Features in The US
- Microsoft has launched some new features for the mobile version of the Bing search engine, which is available at m.bing.com. These include features related to the NFL and to travel.The NFL feature lets the user type a team or player and see upcoming games, stats, and scores. If you use...
- News items 2009-11-02
- Microsoft Unveils Bing Search Engine. Nice! Now, Back to Google
- Microsoft took the wraps off the Bing search engine, heir apparent to the unfortunately named Live Search, a few days early. Quick verdict: better, but far from a Google-killer. Before I explain that, you might want to watch Microsoft's promo video, which dubs Bing a "decision engine"...
- Blog posts 2009-06-01
- Microsoft outs Silverlight-powered Bing Maps
- Microsoft has launched a new Silverlight-powered Bing Maps into beta testing this month, in an attempt to better what is already on offer from Google Maps. The new Silverlight version of Bing Maps offers a bunch of new features that Microsoft refers to as "spatial search" – although...
- News items 2009-12-03
- Wolfram Alpha signs deal with Bing - Rumour
- Computational search engine Wolfram Alpha is supplying data to Microsoft’s Bing search engine as part of a licensing deal, according to online reports. The claims seem to contradict analyst predictions that Wolfram would tie-up with Google. Unlike conventional search engines,...
- Articles 2009-08-20
- Microsoft Should Benefit from Windows 7 and Bing in 2010
- Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: Standard & Poor’s analyst Jim Yin Tuesday raised his rating on Microsoft MSFT to Buy from Hold, with a new price target of $26, up from $22. Yin says the company should reap rewards in the June 2010 fiscal year from recent product announcements, including...
- External links 2009-06-09
- Ballmer: Don't Look For Microsoft To Buy Search Businesses
- Yes, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has said it is once again looking at making acquisitions, but no, Microsoft isn’t planning to take that route to bulk up in search. CEO Steve Ballmer—who seems to be on quite the interview circuit as of late—tells Reuters that he does not expect the...
- External links 2009-10-05
- Brian McAndrews on Holding Companies' 'People' Problem
- NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- There are few executives who rode 2007's digital-media acquisition spree more skillfully than Brian McAndrews, who as CEO of aQuantive sold the firm to Microsoft for $6 billion. He's known as a prescient executive: During the decade leading up to the sale, Mr. McAndrews amassed a...
- News items 2009-08-14
- Video: Murdoch: Bing Can't Afford Exclusive News Deals
- If it’s Tuesday—or any day of the week lately for that matter—it must be time for Rupert Murdoch to hit the tube. Today’s conduit: his own Fox Business Network. The News Corp (NYSE: NWS). chairman and CEO hit some of the usual subjects, but with a few variations. Some...
- External links 2009-11-17
- How Do I Escape Business Travel Hell?
- Dear Stanley, I'm on the road this week, which used to be a good thing, but now I have a problem. My itinerary includes Phoenix, Los Angeles, Seattle and then back home to Chicago. In the old days, my trip would have been rationally planned. I would...
- Blog posts 2009-04-03
- Search Engine Marketing Spend Stabilizing
- The Search Engine Marketing SEM industry continues to stabilize in the third quarter of 2009 and included some positive sings for the fourth quarter, according to a new report from Efficient Frontier. "The third quarter results and a look beyond provide some encouraging signs for the Search Marketing industry as...
- News items 2009-10-13
- Clutter-Free, Twittified, Binged (and Also Apple-icious): The New MSN Homepage Debuts (Plus Screenshots and the Press Release [BoomTown]
- The new MSN homepage debuts tonight and you would be completely correct for thinking the recipe Microsoft MSFT has cooked up to inform its design ethos–white, clean and hiply modern–has definite echoes of a certain longtime tech rival. That would be Apple AAPL, of course, with a big dollop of...
- News items 2009-11-03
- Microsoft launches major MSN homepage overhaul
- On the heels of big redesigns at rival portals Yahoo and AOL, Microsoft is unveiling what it is calling the most significant overhaul of MSN.com in more than a decade. The home page's familiar blue background and long lists of links are being replaced with an...
- News items 2009-11-04
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