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Bing Shopping Grows 169% in June
Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 14, 2009 10:41 AM / 11 Comments
Bing Shopping, the comparison shopping tool that is part of Microsoft's new search engine, saw some impressive growth last month. According to Hitwise's Heather Dougherty, visits to Bing Shopping increased Continue reading »


Amateurs vs. Agencies: Microsoft's Razorfish Acquired
Written by Dana Oshiro / August 9, 2009 6:04 PM / 4 Comments
Publicis Groupe SA announced today the acquisition of Microsoft's Razorfish advertising agency for $530 million dollars. In a joint press release, the group announced that the deal will increase Publicis' Continue reading »


Bing's Bias: Tinfoil Hats Don't Seem Necessary Yet
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / August 6, 2009 10:06 AM / 6 Comments
PCWorld and CIO.com ran a story by Shane O'Neill today alleging that Microsoft's search engine Bing returns results for certain queries that are contrary to the searcher's intent and biased Continue reading »


The Firefox Campaign Trail: A Billion Downloads, A Billion Votes
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 30, 2009 8:28 PM / 9 Comments
According to the Mozilla Team and the Firefox Twitter account, the spunky orange browser will reach 1 billion downloads at approximately 3:45 a.m. PT tomorrow morning. tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/the_firefox_campaign_trail_a_billion_downloads_a_b.php'; tweetmeme_source Continue reading »


Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 29, 2009 9:52 PM / 5 Comments
Companies in the internet TV space should start worrying. It seems Microsoft's foray into life streaming on the XBox 360 will arrive as early as autumn. As promised in early Continue reading »


Microsoft Page Hunt Game to Improve Search?
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 28, 2009 9:57 AM / 2 Comments
Microsoft just launched Page Hunt, a game that presents web pages to players and asks that they guess key words to hunt them down. In the past, RWW has covered Continue reading »


Microsoft to Bundle Firefox and Chrome with Windows?
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 24, 2009 1:42 PM / 22 Comments
In its effort to detangle itself from the ongoing proceedings of the European Union antitrust case, it seems Microsoft is offering to include rival web browsers in the Windows OS. Continue reading »


Microsoft Linux Release: Legal Pressure or Purely Selfish? (UPDATE)
Written by Dana Oshiro / July 24, 2009 10:46 AM / 1 Comments
Earlier this week Microsoft announced the release of 20,000 lines of device driver code to the Linux community. The code is meant to enhance Linux performance when virtualized on Windows Continue reading »


Are Microsoft and Yahoo Close to a Search Ad Deal Again?
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 17, 2009 8:39 AM / 7 Comments
Today, a number of rumors about a potential partnership between Yahoo and Microsoft surfaced once again. Almost a year ago, after months of back and forth between Microsoft and Yahoo, Continue reading »


BingTweets: Microsoft Launches a Twitter Search Engine
Written by Frederic Lardinois / July 15, 2009 8:15 AM / 10 Comments
Microsoft, in cooperation with Federated Media and Twitter, launched its own full-blown Twitter search engine today. BingTweets mashes up real-time Twitter search with results from Bing, Microsoft's new and increasingly Continue reading »


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