Microsoft's Revenue Jumps 7% - Stock Prices Still Fall

Microsoft posted fiscal first quarter revenues $17.37 billion dollars. This is a 7% jump over the period a year ago. The figure also met analyst expectations but didn't stop the stock price from falling after the...

Detroit - City of diversity and deep heart.

Detroit, city of supreme effort Photographer Aaron Sneddon experiences Detroit, and comes out all the better. Detroit was founded in 1701 and is the largest city in Michigan, so it’s been around for a long time now. In 2009 Detroit was calculated to have a population...

Bing Takes Over Yahoo Search Back-End: Goodbye, Search Monkey

Yahoo Search Transitions to Bing Yahoo is switching its English-language search technology to Bing, incorporating Microsoft's technology for crawling the web and ranking search results. Yahoo's own technology will...

Bing?

Bing wants to be the next powerhouse search engine. This is indeed the dream of many people to have the search engine. They have many fans and have indeed helped Microsoft in terms of dominance in Web 2.0 . However, Bing is not without its critics as well. For example, it...

Bing Makes Search Deals with Twitter & Facebook

Bing has made search deals with Twitter and Facebook, which will display tweets containing the terms you goo-- uh, I mean bing alongside the web-based results. Also present will be publicly-visible Facebook...

Fast Flip: Google Hot on the Heels of Bing Visual Search

Google has introduced Fast Flip, a visual way to flip through websites that has a newspapery feel to it. Google is hoping to woo newspapers, whose own revenue models have gotten trounced by the web over the past...

Google Caffeine: Google Changes Search Engine Algorythm

Google Caffeine has launched in test mode. Google revealed their new search engine development today, codenamed "Caffeine." A major change is the engine's ability to use different verb forms. If you're an SEO person, check your web properties against the link above- you may...

Bing is Bigger than Twitter

While we all laughed at Bing, Bing went quietly about racking up the pageviews, outperforming even Twitter. Holy crap. I wonder how many people are tweeting about it. In fact, Bing is the 13th most-visited site...

Hotmail and Bing

Each day I access the UK News through MSN while using Google as a research tool. Today I discover “bing” as a search Engine on MSN and that the “sign_in” to Hotmail has shifted to the end of the screen. What...

Microsoft's Bing Continues to Gain Ground - Has A 2nd Good Week

The new weapon in the arsenal of Microsoft to fight Google's supremacy in the search engine market - Bing. Google enjoys a lions share of more than 50% while Microsoft still was struggling to reach double figures....

Microsoft Launches Bing: Search Engine? No, a Decision Engine

Microsoft has launched Bing, its "decision engine" in preview.I've been playing with it for a bit- it really comes into its own as a shopping tool, but has not really brought anything up that Google hasn't when I...

'Vancouverism' lauded at London architecture festival

What in the sam hill is Vancouverism, you're asking. Vancouver's city planning philosophy is such a hit with architects they've come up with a new name for it. Apparently we're good at building a dense city that...

Shanghai film festival: Go away, Sharon Stone

The backlash against Sharon Stone continues as the Shanghai International Film Festival said the American actress would not be welcome at this year's event. She will really have to take care what she says in...

Madonna - The world's most successful female musician

"Madonna grossed more than £100 million for her 60-date Confessions tour, earning more than £1.5 million a gig. The new edition of the Guinness Book of Records confirms the 49-year-old as the world's most...

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