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Microsoft Bing’s prediction engine correctly picked World Cup, Wimbledon outcomes

Bing’s prediction engine is having a good summer. Bing Predicts, which crunches huge amounts of data and uses a series… Read More

Microsoft exits display ad business in key markets, reportedly shifting 1,200 jobs to AOL

Microsoft is turning over its display advertising business in the U.S. and eight other markets to AOL as part of an… Read More

Microsoft sells some Bing Maps assets to Uber; 100 engineers shifting to ride-sharing company

Microsoft is selling some of its mapping imagery and data to Uber in a deal that bolsters the ride-sharing giant’s recent… Read More

Geek of the Week: Microsoft Bing program manager Kassy Coan is always on the fly

Bing program manager Kassy Coan gives Microsoft’s fascination with “the cloud” a whole new meaning. When she is not working on Bing’s… Read More

Microsoft Bing building ‘massive index’ of content from iOS, Android and Windows apps

Unlike web pages, the contents and capabilities of apps are usually hidden away from a search engine’s web crawlers, not accessible to searchers or… Read More

Bing will give mobile-friendly sites a ranking boost, following Google’s lead

Microsoft announced today that it will begin using mobile friendliness as a signal in Bing’s search ranking algorithm for results… Read More

Bing’s desktop search share in U.S. hits 20 percent for the first time

Microsoft has nabbed search share from Google and Yahoo to grab a fifth of the total desktop web search market… Read More

Microsoft and Yahoo search alliance in flux, as revised contract changes key deadline

Yahoo and Microsoft may be modifying an agreement that has tied the fates of the two companies together for the past five… Read More

FTC report alleges Google took product rankings from Amazon to boost its search results

A confidential report prepared by staffers at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission found that Google took product rankings from Amazon… Read More

March Madness at Microsoft: How Bing is predicting college basketball game outcomes

Microsoft Bing already used its algorithms to predict outcomes of events like the 2015 Academy Awards and last month’s Super Bowl. But… Read More

Need help filling out your bracket? Here are Bing’s data-backed predictions

Let the Madness begin. The field for the annual NCAA men’s basketball tournament field was set yesterday on “Selection Sunday,”… Read More

Bing partners with NCAA, will use predictive algorithms to help people fill out brackets

Bing wants to help you win your March Madness bracket pool. The Microsoft search engine announced today that it is the… Read More

Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla pulls searchers from Google, but Bing stays flat

Yahoo’s deal with Mozilla to become the default search provider for U.S. Firefox users has paid off. The company handled almost… Read More

Twitter brings back Bing translations after months-long absence

Twitter announced today that users can once again translate tweets made in foreign languages using Microsoft’s Bing Translator technology. Now,… Read More

Google loses search share to Yahoo after losing default search spot in Firefox

Yahoo’s decision to become the default search provider for Firefox has paid off in spades. According to new data released… Read More

Ouch: Microsoft Bing predicts that hometown Seahawks won’t win Super Bowl

C’mon, Bing — where’s the love for your hometown football team? Microsoft’s search engine just laid out some predictions for… Read More

Facebook drops Microsoft Bing for web search, goes its own way

Facebook is no longer providing results from Microsoft Bing when users conduct searches on the social network, part of a broader change in Facebook’s approach to… Read More

Microsoft adds Bing image search to its Sway presentation tool

Microsoft has enhanced its new Sway web-based presentation tool with the ability to directly add content from a Bing image search… Read More

Take note, event organizers: Microsoft rolls out Bing Pulse live polling tool to everyone

Microsoft announced today that its Bing Pulse real-time audience response tool is now available for anyone to use. The service,… Read More

iPhone 6 trumps Xbox One, Fitbit as most-searched device on Bing in 2014

Bing today posted its most-searched lists of the year, and 2014 was all about the iPhone 6, the Seattle Seahawks, and Kim… Read More

Microsoft Office ditches clip art, offers Bing-powered image search instead

Microsoft Office users looking for exactly the right piece of clip art to accent their presentation or document can now… Read More

EU regulators: ‘Right to be forgotten’ in search results should be global

The European Union’s “right to be forgotten” may be going global, if a set of regulators have their way. A… Read More

Firefox ditches Google and makes Yahoo its default search engine

In a massive shift, Mozilla has signed a five-year partnership with Yahoo to be the default search provider for Firefox… Read More

Foursquare releases new app for Windows Phone, following investment by Microsoft

Foursquare has finally released a new app for Windows Phone, nine months after Microsoft invested in the New York-based startup. This… Read More

Microsoft VP: Bing eyes Windows as ‘next treasure trove’ for data analysis

REDMOND, Wash. — Speaking this morning at a “Bing Ads Next” event, Microsoft VP Rik van der Kooi talked about the… Read More

Microsoft Bing launches new election portal with predictions, personalized ballots

As November approaches quickly, Microsoft Bing today launched a new election portal that aims to help inform citizens of issues and… Read More

MSN’s rebirth brings Microsoft’s new approach into focus

It might be easy to dismiss Microsoft’s MSN as a relic of the dial-up Internet era, but with 425 million monthly users,… Read More

Bing Search app brings on-the-fly language translation to iPhone

One of the great annoyances of using a mobile device to search the web has been encountering websites in foreign… Read More

NFL picks: Microsoft Bing beat Vegas last week — here are its Week 2 predictions

Need help picking teams each week for your NFL pool? Microsoft Bing’s prediction engine is here to help. The Redmond… Read More

Microsoft redesigns MSN.com; MSN apps coming to iOS, Android

MSN.com is getting a makeover. Microsoft’s new-look news hub, which you can check out in beta mode at preview.msn.com, was… Read More