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Microsoft and EY Are Rolling Out Blockchain Technology for Xbox – Adweek

If Microsoft and EY’s blockchain product is successful, it should shape the way video game developers, creators and publishers of all types earn money online. Last week, the companies debuted a content rights and royalties platform built on the blockchain, which will allow Microsoft and its partners to process millions of transactions in a faster and more reliable way. Working with Microsoft and EY’s platform, publishers in music, gaming, television and other entertainment industries will… Source link

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Bing, MSN, Outlook.com, Hotmail and other Microsoft services hit with outage

Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, is having a rough day as the engine was hit with an outage from roughly 2:15PM to 2:45PM ET. If you were to head on over to Bing.com, during that time, you would have been greeted with the page above. Even though Microsoft’s Bing engine is much smaller than Google’s, according to Alexa, it is the 24th most visited site on the web which means that millions of users are likely to see this page instead of the daily images that the… Source link

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Microsoft had 32 million Bing-MSN visitors for Election Day 2012

The US Presidential Election is now over with, but Microsoft is still collecting information about the visitors and page views it generated this past Tuesday on both Bing and MSN on that day. Microsoft made a big push for Bing to be a center of election coverage, adding in features like news updates, social media posts, online polls and more to its election hub. Today, the official Bing blog announced that both Bing and MSN had a total of almost 32 million… Source link

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Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft

Bing Delivers Credibility to Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO — In late May, Microsoft unveiled Bing, its new Internet search engine, in front of an audience of skeptics: technology executives and other digerati who had gathered near San Diego for an industry conference. To that crowd, Microsoft’s efforts to take on Google and Yahoo in the search business had become something of a laughingstock, and for good reason. Microsoft’s repeated efforts to build a credible search engine had fallen flat, and the company’s market share was… Source link

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Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)

Bing! Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search Engine (Screenshots)

Today, Microsoft publicly unveiled its soon-to-launch search engine Bing. It will become available over the next few days, and be fully launched by June 3. On the surface, Bing has a distinct gloss. The home page features a rotation of stunning photography, for instance, which can be clicked on to produce related image search results. But the most significant changes are under the covers. “We have taken the algorithmic programming up an order of magnitude,” says… Source link

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