(Another) New Bing UI spotted: have you seen it?

Looks like the folks at Bing are back at it again, testing new versions of the UI, while not saying much about them or how (or even when) the changes will roll out more ... Read more »

Can Microsoft take over the living room with Xbox, Kinect, and Bing?

On Tuesday, Microsoft will begin to roll out the next version of the Xbox experience, featuring a new dashboard that combines your living room TV with the Xbox 360.  With voice and motion control ... Read more »

“Cool stuff coming soon” to Bing?

While marketing tactics like the Bing Holiday Calendar are all well and good, we’re waiting for something a bit more substantial, and it looks like we might not have to wait long. According to ... Read more »

The Bing Magical Holiday Calendar

For the month of December Bing has created the Bing Magical Holiday Calendar, 31 days, 31 gifts! Starting off with: *NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open only to legal residents of the 50 US (+D.C.) 18+. ... Read more »

Yandex replaces Bing as the default search engine for Windows Phones in Russia

According to a press release from Russia’s most popular search engine Yandex, their search product will be replacing Bing as the default search engine on Windows Phones sold in Russia. Below is an excerpt ... Read more »

Microsoft acquires VideoSurf, to integrate video content discovery into Xbox LIVE and Bing search

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired California-based company VideoSurf, which provides video discovery technology to customers and enables them to quickly and accurately find the video they want. Their technology is pretty unique ... Read more »

Bing Maps brings back 360º immersive panorama view, in addition to Street Slide

Back in May this year, we first noticed that Microsoft had replaced Bing Map’s Streetside panoramic view with Microsoft Research’s “Street Slide”, which lets users navigate street level imagery sideways rather than a full ... Read more »

Bing Daily Deals is now MSN Offers

Today we received an email from Microsoft announcing that Bing Daily Deals (http://www.bing.com/daily-deals), powered by Tippr, will soon be rebranded as MSN Offers. As we reported earlier, the service lets you subscribe to daily ... Read more »

Microsoft to build new R&D centre in Beijing, focus on internet; Bing, MSN and advertising

There’s a report out today from Sina Tech, spotted by The Next Web, that states that Microsoft is going to building a new research and development (R&D) centre in Beijing. This new centre will ... Read more »

Bing Australia drops beta tag, get new homepage video but still lacks features

We reported back in May this year that Bing Australia (http://www.bing.com.au) is planned to come out of beta “soon”. Well it had been almost 6 months and today Microsoft finally decides to drop the ... Read more »