Today, Facebook launched a new application, dubbed Facebook Stories, to highlight shared stories about people who have reconnected with friends and family via Facebook. As a part of the application, Bing Maps powers the location data for published stories. …

Today, the Bing Webmaster Tools gets an update. What’s new in the updated Bing Webmaster Tools? Everything. With your feedback in mind, the Bing Webmaster Team decided to hit the reset button and rebuild the tools from the ground up.…

This summer, all you Tour de France fans can get live tour updates via geo-tagged tweets straight from the course in France and around the world on a Bing Twitter Map hosted by Team Radioshack and LIVESTRONG.com.

For the …

Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land is reporting that an email sent out to Yahoo! advertisers that reveals that Yahoo!, who have been testing Bing results in their search queries offline already, will for the first time this month begin …

Bing’s Tuesday homepage was a tribute to a celebration in Japan.
It was there for a reason, as the team blog explains:

We were celebrating as Bing Japan removed its beta tag, launched a new product feature and

There’s a new Bing’s Best themepack available, Bing’s Best: Japan. This pack contains 18 images from Bing Japan.

You can download it by clicking the image above or from the Personalization Gallery.…

At a Bing Search Summit in San Francisco, Microsoft executives showed off in rapid style (with no video or pictures allowed) a bunch of stuff in the Bing pipeline, including

Microsoft is working on incorporating pictures and video into more

Microsoft Research and NASA are providing an entirely new experience to users of the WorldWide Telescope, which will allow visitors to interact with and explore our solar system like never before. Viewers can now take exclusive interactive tours of …

The latest comScore numbers are out, according to a post at The Silicon Alley Insider (they’ll be fully available publically in a few days), and the numbers show that Bing, and Yahoo! are continuing to make small inroads against Google:…

Apparently the latest in a series of improvements to Bing is Bing.com/weather, something of particular interest to those in the Eastern US right now as they suffer through a heat wave, and us here in the Pacific NW as …