Today, people in the US with phones running Windows Phone 8.1 will have a new way to experience Foursquare recommendations. Now, based on your location, Cortana will proactively showcase local recommendations from Foursquare on the Cortana home screen, along with your other interests. [To turn on the feature, pull up Cortana’s notebook go to Interests, look for “best nearby” and then toggle to ON]
Cortana talks on your behalf to the Foursquare...
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This spring, we launched the latest Bing design that brings friends, experts and enthusiasts into the search experience through a dedicated “sidebar”. We committed to working with industry partners to make the social experience in Bing compelling and useful for our customers. Today we are excited to share that we are delivering the first new Bing sidebar integration since we turned on the new Bing experience in June.
Starting...
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We’re ‘checking-in’ and kicking it into high gear on Foursquare Day! Foursquare Day was a grass-roots campaign founded by users in 2010 to celebrate the social media platform. This April 16th (Foursquare = 42 = 4/16, get it?!) we’re celebrating in true mobile fashion by giving away 6 Nokia Lumia 900 Windows® Phones to our lucky Foursquare followers.
To be entered, follow Bing on Foursquare and check-in to any venue...
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This week Bing Maps and Microsoft Research will be heading to San Jose to attend O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 Conference. Blaise Aguera y Arcas, architect of Bing Maps will kick off the event keynote at 9am and will also take part in “The Big Picture, from the Big Players” panel at 2pm alongside Danny Sullivan and folks from Yahoo!, Google and Yelp. If you can’t make it to the keynote, the speech will be live streamed...
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