SAN FRANCISCO--Microsoft's Bing took a major step forward Wednesday in adding rich mapping and image data to its search engine, but until it assembles more data, pretty pictures aren't enough to beat ...

Despite Microsoft’s sell-off of the tech and talent underlying Bing Maps last week, the company has now signaled its intention to stay in the mapping game: Microsoft today announced an overhauled Bing ...

Microsoft today launched a preview of its not-quite-ready-for-primetime Bing Maps app for Windows 8.1. The first-look edition of Bing Maps, available now for free download in the Windows Store, ...

Bing announced they have added a new layer to the Maps data. The new layer is from Open Street Maps, a free editable map of the whole world. This layer is a lot like the Wikipedia concept, where ...

Microsoft has rolled out an update to its Bing app, gracing it with a new travel feature, a “nearby” feature, and some map enhancements. The Bing app is Microsoft’s answer to the search-friendly ...

Microsoft has set its sights on Google Maps, adding more than 165 terabytes of new satellite imagery to Bing Maps. This is the biggest ever data release for Bing Maps, which had 129TB of data at its ...

Microsoft is cleaning house at Bing, dropping one feature completely, while dropping the need for the company's Silverlight browser plug-in to use the other. Josh Lowensohn Former Senior Writer Josh ...

Bing’s mapping tools are adding services to help trucks get where they need to be, when they need to be there Many technologies have aspired to change the world, but if there’s one that’s really made ...