Bing Blogs - 135

Tonight Fox will air a 2 hour special highlighting the “Top 6” remaining dance teams on So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD). Whether you’re looking to relive the best performances or catch up before the finale, we’ve got you covered. We recently rolled out a SYTYCD Visual Search Gallery that lets you sort by what you’re interested in including season, performance, dances with elimination and choreographer. For the...
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Diversity is defined by a single word: variety – which basically means different. But very few people follow up with the question: “Different in what way?”  The next question we all want to ask, and don’t, is this: “How and why is diversity important in the workplace?” We can all agree that we really just need to find the right skill, the right talent for our companies and clients. But I really want to...
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There are a lot of businesses operating in the US.  How many is “a lot”?  Well, back when the last set of official stats existed for 2007, Canada’s population was just over 30 million.  Now you’re wondering what Canada’s population has to do with local businesses in the US, right?  Well, there was almost the same number of businesses in the US in 2007 as the population of Canada!  The actual...
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Today marks the start of the 17th annual ESPN Summer X Games in Los Angeles and Bing will be there and on-air all weekend.   Bing is an official sponsor of this year’s X Games; from BMX Big Air to Skateboarding Tricks to Moto X Freestyle, we are excited to partner with ESPN and the Action Sports community. In the spirit of the games, we wanted to capture the essence of the “X” lifestyle in a series of short films. ...
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We are pleased to announce the winners of the first ever Bing Rewards sweepstakes, pending official confirmation. The response we received was so overwhelming that we’ve just launched three new sweepstakes. Keep reading for details on how to enter, but first congratulations to our winners. Veronica S. of New Haven, Connecticut had her name drawn to win the Xbox 360 4GB Console with Kinect Bundle. She will be taking home the 4GB Console, the...
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Today we are announcing the number of updates that have been made to the Bing Maps Account Center, Bing Maps REST Services and the Bing Maps MSDN documentation. Bing Maps Account Center 
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  Microsoft Advertising will be hosting a recruiting event in mid-October this year to recruit top talent from all over Russia and neighboring countries specifically focusing on Software Developers of all experience levels who are interested in relocating to the U.S. At this time, we are looking to hire engineers for the roles below. ALL roles require strong coding and development experience. Software Development Engineer (SDE) Software...
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For kids, summer is in full swing. But for parents it’s time to start thinking about getting the kids ready to go back to school. Among the long list of to-dos, finding the best deals on back to school must-haves tops the list. According to a recent Bing survey, 52 percent of parents are more concerned about price than value, style, or brand when it comes to making back-to-school purchasing decisions and 87 percent check multiple stores and...
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  Microsoft’s Bing and Advertising teams will be at KDD and we’d love to talk to you about a career in data mining or statistical analysis.  We are looking for people with skills in the following areas: Data Mining Statistics Machine Learning Data analysis of vary large real-world data Information retrieval Computational algorithms User segmentation modeling   We need people to work on a range of tasking including...
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At 6 foot 1 and 240 pounds, Dhani Jones may look the part of a typical NFL linebacker but when he’s not on the field with the Cincinnati Bengals, he is folding that frame into an airplane seat. . As we wrote earlier this week, Dhani’s passion for exploring new countries has taken him to over 70 countries and was the premise behind his hit TV show “Dhani Tackles the Globe,” which ran for two seasons on the Travel Channel...
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