Ring In the New Year with Maria Menounos and #BingIt

  Hollywood expert and TV personality Maria Menounos recently launched her first book The EveryGirl’s Guide to Life to help you make decisions on how to live your best life. In this must-have A-Z guide, Maria shares all the tips and secrets she’s learned from style experts, lifestyle gurus and the biggest stars in Hollywood. This week, you have a chance to get Maria’s inside tips first hand. She will be our guest on this...
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Bing Rewards November Winners and Our Latest Sweepstakes

We are pleased to announce the winners (pending official confirmation) of the three Bing Rewards sweepstakes that ended on November 30th. Our December sweeps have begun in our brand new redemption center! Keep reading for details on the great prizes we’re offering and how to enter, but first congratulations to our latest winners. Michael T. of San Diego, California was drawn as the grand prize winner of the College Survival Pack. This...
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Out with the Old, In with the New: Bing Takes Stock of 2011 and The Year Ahead

A few weeks ago, we shared the top Bing searches for 2011 which captured a snapshot of the year’s most important people, places and moments in time. With 2011 wrapping up and the New Year around the bend, we fielded a survey of over 1,000 U.S. adults on how they felt about 2011 and how they plan to ring in 2012. From resolutions to New Year’s Eve celebration plans, here’s what they had to say: 2011 This was a year of ups and...
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Microsoft & RocketSpace: Feeding the Startup Ecosystem

Since launching Bing in 2009, we’ve had to overcome many of the classic challenges facing startups. As a service trying to disrupt a mature space – we appreciate the need to stay nimble, tenacious and creative. As a result, we have an affinity for startups and the innovations, relentless energy and tremendous support coming out of that community. To that end, we recently created the Bing Booster program as a way for us to give back...
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Bing Invites You to Remix a Track for Theophilus London

Theophilus London and Bing invite you to unleash your inner producer for a chance to have your remix featured on London’s next album. If you have the creative chops, you can submit your remix of Theophilus London’s track ‘All Around The World’ here. The winner will join the global MC/singer in his New York studio to put the finishing touches on the remix, which will be featured on the upcoming release.

Major Nelson Teams with #BingIt to Discuss All Things Xbox LIVE

  With last week’s release of Xbox LIVE update including Bing on Xbox voice search, we invited Larry Hyrb (better known as Major Nelson) to join us for this week’s #BingIt conversation. Larry’s renowned blog “Xbox LIVE’s Major Nelson” provides an “inside” look at all things Xbox. Join us on Wednesday, December 14th from 12-1pm PST, when Larry will be sharing his Xbox knowledge and will be on...
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Bing on Xbox Team: Don’t Be Shy About Talking to the TV

  On Tuesday, with the Holiday release of Xbox LIVE we introduced Bing on Xbox which lets you sort through all of your entertainment content – including movies, games, TV shows, apps and music – with just the sound of your voice. With the updates landing in people’s living rooms this week, Michelle Holtmann on the core search team came by to talk with us about what it was like working on the project. Michelle is the...
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Bing Magical Holiday Calendar Offers You a Chance to Win Free Concerts for a Year

  To cap the first week of the Bing Magic Holiday Calendar, we are ending with a bang. Visit the calendar today for a chance to win free concerts for a year. Our partners at Live Nation are giving the gift that keeps giving – a year of free tickets to your favorite concerts. So go enter and while you’re waiting to see if you won, check out Bing Events.   You can find everything from tour dates, VIP packages and through...
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Shenae Grimes from 90210 Joins #BingIt Today to Talk About Giving Back During the Holidays

Actress Shenae Grimes plays the role of Annie Wilson, a Beverly Hills transplant from Kansas on the CW’s hit show 90210. Despite the fancy zip code, Shenae’s heart – especially during the holiday season – is focused on giving back through her charitable movement, Spread The Heart, and her recent Art Basel photography exhibit on the homeless called Travelers. Check out the video from Miami:

Introducing a Streamlined Redemption Center and New Bing Rewards

  We’re excited to announce the launch of a brand new Bing Rewards redemption center, including some hot new rewards, lower prices on some of our most popular items and an enhanced site design. The Bing Rewards team is committed to continually evolve the program experience with input from our members and today’s release delivers on a number of suggestions and requests that have been made. To streamline the redemption process, all...
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