In the past month since REDU launched, we have seen the call for education reinvention thrust into the middle of a national conversation.  The numbers are staggering – a third of our students never graduate, US ranks 18th out of 21 countries in math and science, over 1 million veteran teachers are set to retire.  So, whether it’s Waiting for Superman, the Education Nation summit, or just over the news, the topic of improving...
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Looking for information on startups at TechCrunch Disrupt so you can have your own angels dinner (oddly, no one accepted my invite to TGIFriday’s last night)?  Look no further than the new Bing Visual Search gallery located here.  Get the details on all the companies, latest news, tweets and other salient info about each startup at Disrupt.  Sort by how much they’ve raised, who funded them, when they were funded and more...
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Bing is sponsoring a “kids owned and operated” event on September 18th (Saturday) called TEDxRedmond chaired by the youngest TED speaker, 12-year old Adora Svitak.  A free, inspirational event for kids by kids, this one-of-a-kind conference will bring some of the most extraordinary youth from Washington State and the nation to share insights, knowledge, and “ideas worth spreading” with their peers. Adora and the...
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Starting tomorrow, Bing will be participating in full force at what’s shaping up to be another stellar SMX West (March 2-4, Santa Clara CA).  Every SMX show is a special one for Bing.  But this one is super-duper special for one reason – we’re bringing Steve Ballmer!  This will be Steve’s first ever conversation with the search community at an industry event.  Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search...
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Tomorrow we’ll be at the Sundance Film Festival at the world premiere of Para Fuera, An Intimate Portrait of Dr. Richard Bing.  As some of you may recall we talked about Dr. Bing last October on the occasion of his 100th birthday.  I still love that story about how we met (and it shows the power of a good fax these days in our overcrowded inboxes!) and I’ve told it and the lessons I’ve taken away from our meetings to...
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Snow, sunshine, a good film or two and good company…does that sound like a good time to you?  Well it did to us, so we packed our bags (ok…Stefan and a few others packed their bags) and headed down to Park City, Utah to attend the Sundance Film festival. The Bing team will be down there showing the attendees how they can use Bing to navigate through Park City using Bing Maps, learn about the hottest films, and plan their...
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Last night at the TechFlash: Women In Tech event we were able to meet some great women in the tech industry. Bing was there in full effect giving away all sorts of Bing goods and chit chatting in the hallways. After a jammed packed social hour of eating, drinking and mingling we all headed into the main room where a panel of very talented and insightful women continued the discussion. Shahla Aly, vice president at Microsoft kicked it off talking...
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San Francisco last week, LA next.  Bing is headed to sunny So Cal for some flash & glam at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Characters Conference at the famed Kodak Theatre.  This conference has its own twist on the regular business conference about twitter  – each speaker is expected to be a character with their own story, and even the panels are really a conversation of melding and competing stories.  The first 140...
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Bing is excited to be part of annual Web 2.0 Summit that kicked off today. This is the annual O’Reilly conference where visionaries and executives across key industries will present their unique perspective on the Web’s future-in-flux and how the tools and principles of Web 2.0 are impacting their businesses.  Bing’s presence will be highlighted by Qi Lu’s plenary conversation with Tim O’Reilly, the...
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Betsy mugs with ijustine (Justine Ezarik) first day of the 140 twitter conference. Perez Hilton, eat your heart out. The Twitterati Glitterati are out and in force (and they should never really have let me in)! My first big conference after Techcrunch50 was 140 Twitter Conference. Because it was in Los Angeles, it had a totally different flavor that perhaps only Stefan has experienced previously, during the Bing-a-thon. (Bing-a-thon star Olivia...
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