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Introducing the New Bing: Spend Less Time Searching, More Time Doing — In 2009, we launched Bing with a simple proposition: people should expect more from a search engine. — Our aim has always been to help you do more with search, and over the past three years we have made exciting strides to realize that vision.
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| E.B. Boyd / Fast Company: |
Google, Alert: Bing Wants “To Model Every Object On The Planet,” Reinvent Search — The future of search is not about page rank. It's about creating giant databases of every person, place, and thing on the planet. — Today Bing is announcing a revamp of its front end, to make its search results more useful for users.
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| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
New Bing calls on Facebook and Twitter to beat Google's Search Plus Your World (hands-on) — “90 percent of people consult with a friend or expert before making a decision,” Microsoft says in promotional materials for the new Bing, announced today and rolling out over the next few weeks.| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
Head-To-Head: Bing's Social Search Vs. Google's Search Plus Your World — Earlier this year, Google made its results more social with Search Plus Your World. Now Bing has reshaped how it handles social information as part of its “The New Bing” launch. Which does better …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft to bring full Internet Explorer browsing to Xbox 360 with Kinect controls — Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 on its Xbox 360 console, according to our sources. The Xbox 360 currently includes Bing voice search, but it's limited to media results.
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PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, TechSpot, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, WinBeta, Pulse2 Technology …, Kotaku, WebProNews, Gadgetsteria, Joystiq, Gizmodo and GamesIndustry International. Thanks:@keithdsouza
| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Microsoft's Sneaky Success: The Xbox Is the Most Popular Video Player in the U.S. — More evidence that Microsoft is increasing its lead in the digital living room race: Data that shows its Xbox gaming console is the most popular non-PC device to watch Web video.
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| Kate Freeman / Mashable!: |
Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups [EXCLUSIVE] — Could Facebook become the next Dropbox — or a haven for sharing files without regard to copyright? — The social network has revealed to Mashable that all Groups will now offer the ability to send files.
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| Joseph L. Flatley / The Verge: |
Scamworld: ‘Get rich quick’ schemes mutate into an online monster — My first true look inside the world of Internet Marketing came courtesy of a 37-year-old businessman named Bedros Keuilian. The Chino Hills-based Californian specializes in fitness and personal training marketing, and he is also something of a would-be auteur.
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Marketing Land. Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mattbuchanan, @reckless, @joshuatopolsky and @mattcutts
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Buys Personalized Email Marketer RestEngine To Deliver Best Tweet Digests — Twitter has just finalized a deal to hire the team and buy the technology of RestEngine, a personalized email marketing service, which could help Twitter deliver email digests of great tweets you've missed.
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| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
EXCLUSIVE: Here's How Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Is Explaining His Bio Scandal — Right now, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is attempting to explain to employees why his official Yahoo and eBay bios said he had a degree in computer science when in fact he does not. — We asked Yahoo employees to share this explanation.
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| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Pebble smartwatch tops $10 million in Kickstarter pledges, sells all 85,000 watches — If you thought that the campaign for the Pebble E-Paper Watch would show signs of slowing after it broke Kickstarter records and pushed past $5 million in pledges, you'd be wrong — for it has now topped $10 million …
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| John Ruwitch / Reuters: |
Apple, supplier Foxconn to share costs on improving factories — (Reuters) - Apple Inc and its key supplier Foxconn Technology Group will share the initial costs of improving labor conditions at the Chinese factories that assemble iPhones and iPads, Foxconn's top executive said on Thursday.
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| Michael Arrington / Uncrunched: |
Kara Swisher's “Just Jokin'” Look At Buying TechCrunch — Interesting line in PandoDaily's article a couple of days ago about TechCrunch - “Kara Swisher was kicking some tires [about buying TechCrunch] to add the brands to the expanding All Things D franchise.” — Then a full retraction yesterday:
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| Michael V. Copeland / Wired: |
Angel No More: Why One of Silicon Valley's Savviest Investors Has Shut His Wallet — Kevin Hartz is sitting this one out. — Sure, Hartz is busy with his day-job as CEO of online ticketing startup Eventbrite, but it's not a time management thing that keeps him from his usual angel-investing habit.| Bloomberg: |
Facebook IPO Said to Meet Weaker-Than-Expected Investor Demand — Facebook Inc. (FB)'s initial public offering has so far generated lower-than-expected demand from institutional investors who are concerned about the company's growth prospects, people with knowledge of the matter said.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Rumored FTC probe could delay Facebook / Instagram deal, Toaster filter will have to wait — If you were hoping that Facebook's buyout of Instagram would wrap up quickly and let you directly integrate your heavily filtered photos into Timeline, you might be disappointed.| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Oracle might only receive $150,000 in damages from Google — Summary: In what was once touted as a $6 billion case, Oracle might end up with only $150,000 in statutory damages. — SAN FRANCISCO - Oracle's situation in its intellectual property legal battle against Google is looking more bleak by the day.
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| Mike Rose / Gamasutra: |
Rovio confirms acquisition of Casey's Contraptions IP — [Smartphone/Tablet, Business/Marketing] — Angry Birds creator Rovio has confirmed to Gamasutra that it has acquired the rights to the Casey's Contraptions IP from developers Snappy Touch and Mystery Coconut.| Greg Sandoval / CNET: |
Exclusive: Music locker service MP3tunes.com files for bankruptcy — Legal costs piled up over four years as the music service defended itself against a copyright suit from EMI proved to be too much, says founder Michael Robertson. — Follow @sandoCNET — MP3tunes.com, the music locker service … | Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Klik App Does Mobile Facial Recognition in Real Time — Is taking pictures of your friends on your phone, tagging their names and uploading them just too darn hard? Now there's a free helper app for that, called Klik, which launches out of testing today on the iPhone.| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Apple bid $16m for Chinese iPad trademark but Proview holds out for at least $400m: Reports — With Apple said to be entering serious negotiations with Proview, looking to settle the lengthy legal battle over rights to the Chinese iPad trademark, Apple representatives are reported to have offered $16 million for the mark.
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iPhone, TUAW, Pulse2 Technology …, Ubergizmo, MacDailyNews, IntoMobile, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, WebProNews, MacRumors, 9to5Mac and MacNN
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Autodesk launches 123D Catch for iPad, lets you turn pics into 3D models — Autodesk's had its 123D Catch iPad application in the works for quite some time now, but starting today, you'll finally be able to use that Cupertino slate to turn those beautiful snaps into three-dee creations.
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Dish Network adds ‘Auto Hop’ commercial skipping feature to its Hopper DVRs — One of the main features when Dish Network unveiled its Hopper and Joey multiroom DVRs at CES was PrimeTime Anytime, a setting that archives three hours of network programming, every night on the four main stations …
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
FBI Fears Bitcoin's Popularity with Criminals — The FBI sees the anonymous Bitcoin payment network as an alarming haven for money laundering and other criminal activity — including as a tool for hackers to rip off fellow Bitcoin users. — That's according to a new FBI internal report …
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| Chris Velazco / TechCrunch: |
FreedomPop Revamps Free Data Plan For Their $99 WiMax iPhone Case, Puts It Up For Pre-Order — The last time TechCrunch heard from the internet-for-everyone proponents at FreedomPop, they revealed to us that they were working on an iPhone 4/4S case with a built-in WiMax radio that would give … | Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: |
Socialcam is pumping popular YouTube videos into its app to drive usage. Smart or seedy? — Imagine a situation in which you find out your favorite photo-sharing app, say Instagram, is full of content not shared by the folks using the service but rather being pulled in from sites like Flickr … Sponsor Posts
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