Today's funding news includes nail polish, animated farm animals, and unmanned military vehicles.
Human powered Q&A search engine ChaCha raises its seventh round of investment.
Microsoft's Bing search engine hopes to help you find more about the personalities and places in your queries with an update that spits out relevant information at the center of your search.
Last I checked 2013 was still 34 days away. But Bing is obviously an impressive piece of technology: it already knows the most-searched terms of 2012.
Jiujitsu is the art of using your opponent's strengths against them. Apple may be applying precisely that strategy against Google in the middle of its seeming Maps debacle.
Tired of playing second fiddle for years, the Microsoft-owned search company is saying, "Bing it on, Google."
Facebook users are adding a stunning 300 million new photos each and every day. So Bing just added a new way to search and browse your friends' photos without all the clutter of status updates and friend requests.
Everybody wants to be Pinterest.
Bing has been updating its search engine results pages significantly this year, including an aesthetic and architectural revamp in May. Today Microsoft announced that image search, which is almost 10 percent of Bing traffic, is …
Bing has had an epiphany.
Rather than compete with Google in the sheer number of features it can cram onto its results page, Microsoft’s search engine is going the opposite direction towards simplification by releasing a clean, more streamlined results …
People used to give their employers feedback by shoving slips of paper into wooden suggestion boxes. Technology has moved those suggestions boxes online where employees can more effectively have their voices heard. Happiily and 15Five are two new employee-feedback services …
Bing and decide? How drab. Instead, you can now use the number-two search engine to embarrass your friends.
Microsoft’s search engine today introduced a feature called “Linked Pages” that encourages searchers to connect to Facebook and start linking search results …
Editor's Pick
Would you trust the masses to tell you what stories are important? A new site from Microsoft called msnNOW shows you what topics are trending right this very second so you don’t have sort through hundreds of RSS or Twitter …
How big of a deal is a site redesign, really? For travel-booking heavy Kayak, it’s everything. That’s why it took the company six months, one $30,000 eye-tracking device, and countless A/B tests to perfect its new website look, which is …
Did Bieber fever get the best of you this year? Join the club. The YouTube sensation and current cause of adolescent ague was the most searched person of 2011 on Microsoft’s Bing search engine.
Bieber beat out 2010 Bing champion …
Facebook will give U.S. small business owners up to $10 million in free Facebook advertising, the company announced today, saying it is working with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business to provide the ads.…
