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Baidu Bing, Baidu Bang: Bing and Baidu announce search deal

Shane McGlaun, Jul 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

China is notorious for censoring the internet within its boundaries to keep citizens from accessing things that might not meet the questionable moral code of the Chinese government. Google and China have a long running feud but things between Microsoft and China are seemingly smooth. Microsoft is making a big move to raise the awareness of its Bing search engine in the largest internet market with a new deal with the Chinese Baidu search engine. The deal sees no money change hands and Baidu will even keep the revenue generated by ads under the deal. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Bing Lasso Beats Apple’s Copy And Paste Feature

Rue Liu, Jul 5th 2011 Discuss [8]

Microsoft released today an update for its Bing for iPad app that introduced the company's own version of copy and paste. The feature is dubbed "Lasso" and is used to automatically copy and paste a free-hand drawn selection of text for search. It replaces Apple's built-in copy and paste method when using the Bing for iPad app. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Bing now default search on BlackBerry: Deep OS integration coming

Chris Davies, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made a surprise appearance on the BlackBerry World 2011 stage today to announce a new partnership with RIM that will see Bing made the default search provider on BlackBerry smartphones moving forward. The search default will only be the first step of the collaboration, however; Bing will be closely integrated into the core BlackBerry OS. Read The Full Story

Microsoft Photosynth Panorama App With Bing Maps Goes iOS Before WP7

Rue Liu, Apr 18th 2011 Discuss [5]

Microsoft seems to be on a roll lately launching apps on iOS prior to its own platform Windows Phone 7. After having recently launched a Bing Maps app for the iPad, Microsoft today unveiled a smart panorama photo stitching app for the iPhone and iPad called Photosynth. The app was previously limited to the Windows desktop environment and online, but made its leap today to mobile devices. Read The Full Story

Google ITA Travel Search Acquisition Approved But Conditions Apply

Rue Liu, Apr 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google's acquisition of travel software company ITA for $700 million has just been approved today by the U.S. Justice Department after 8 months of deliberation. It was a difficult decision because the acquisition could obliterate competition in the travel search industry. Travel websites such as Kayak and TripAdvisor depend on the ITA software and fear they would lose access to it once Google acquires the company. Luckily for them, the Justice Department has set some conditions in their approval. Read The Full Story

Bing Upgrades With Real-Time Twitter Feed

Rue Liu, Mar 25th 2011 Discuss [3]

Microsoft announced today that its Bing search engine will begin implementing tweets into its news search results as well as integrating more with Facebook. The Bing Team feels that the addition of the social media giants will help users “make more informed decisions in search by surfacing the kind of information you can only get from your friends, often in real-time.” Read The Full Story

Bing grabs second spot in online video

Shane McGlaun, Mar 23rd 2011 Discuss [2]

Google is still the dominant player in search in the US by a wide margin. Google also serves up more online video views than anyone else thanks to YouTube. The only competition in the search and online video realm trends to come further back in the pack and the number two spot is at times hotly contested. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Bing Will Now Give You Daily Deals

Rue Liu, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Daily deal sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Gilt have exploded in popularity these past few years. Microsoft is hoping to collect all deals from these various sites and organize them for you in a nice little package. They plan to incorporate this service into their Bing search engine so that when users do a local search these deals will show up alongside the results. Read The Full Story

Bing beats Yahoo globally for first time

Shane McGlaun, Mar 2nd 2011 Discuss [0]

The latest stats for search engine use have come in from metrics firm StatCounter. According to the firm, Bing has passed Yahoo globally in the number of users for the first time ever. The research firm has noted that Bing reached 4.37% of the global search market in February whereas Yahoo has 3.93% of the global search market. Read The Full Story

Bing Launches Autosuggest Flight and Price Predictor Travel Search

Rue Liu, Feb 25th 2011 Discuss [0]

Microsoft's Bing already has an edge over Google when it comes to travel search, but now it really ups the game with new Price Predictor and Autosuggest Flight Prices features. This improvement makes it really easy to find the best priced flight just by typing in your destination into the search box. Read The Full Story

Nokia CEO: Xbox Live on Nokia phones

Chris Davies, Feb 11th 2011 Discuss [0]

"The game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems" Nokia CEO Stephen Elop insists, taking the stage at the company's press event this morning. "The entire industry is founded on optimism ... and I am an optimist. Together we will deliver a great ecosystem." The news, Elop says, will mean the availability of Bing, Xbox Live and Microsoft Office to Nokia devices. Read The Full Story

SlashGear Week in Review – Week 6 2011

Shane McGlaun, Feb 6th 2011 Discuss [2]

Welcome to another edition of the SlashGear Week in Review. Lots of tablet and smartphone news this week with a few other cool items tossed in for good measure. Overall, it was a good week to be a geek. Canalys offered up some stats on the smartphone OS wars that show Android was the world's leading smartphone platform in Q4 2010. Read The Full Story