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Keeping track of important Facebook updates can be a tedious process, especially if a person has a lot of contacts, but Bing aims to make this easier by integrating Facebook into its social sidebar tool.

Have you been building up your Klout score through social activity, informative posts and connections? If so, you could be a Klout Expert, someone wise enough to get your content to the top of search engines thanks to a new initiative by the measuring company. 

It's spring cleaning time, and Microsoft has been busy with Bing. In October it launched six new apps for Windows 8, which it extended to Office 365 at the beginning of February. This week, it announced on the Bing blog that it is now upgrading those apps.

Long have there been rumors of a deal between Apple and Google to keep Google as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to Scott Devitt in a recent investor report, One Morgan Stanley analyst has pegged that deal as one based on a per device sold basis, and it could be worth US$ 1 billion this year alone.

In the monthly race for search queries worldwide, Microsoft’s Bing search engine was beaten in November and December by… Yandex. If you’re asking, “What is Yandex?”, you obviously do not live in Russia. 

Companies want to be able to know where you are at all times so they can hit you up with an ad/sale/coupon/offer/message when you are at or near certain locations. Mobile devices make this pretty easy to do -- Foursquare makes it even easier. 

It’s only three days since Microsoft launched Office 2013 and the online version through Office 365, but already it has started building it out. To be more precise, it is Bing that is building out Office 365 with the addition of five new apps that can be used with the new Office 365 Home Premium.

The last time we spoke with Optify’s CMO Doug Wheeler we learned about the impact of Google’s SSL enhancement on SEO data. To investigate its impact, Optify conducted a study to see the effect that these keywords were having on organic search results. As it turns out, “not provided” accounted for almost 40% of referring traffic data from organic search. Today, Optify has released a new report chronicling the performance of the primary sources of traffic to B2B websites. Forget what you thought you knew about how your clients or company compare against industry benchmarks. You're going to want to see this.

 No matter how he tries to keep off the radar, Google has a range of apps and sites to help your children monitor his progress this Christmas. 

Microsoft is changing its SharePoint Client Access License structure and raising fees by 15% starting December 1. Maybe it's not too late to convince Microsoft to call it off?

Bing Ads, the advertising platform from the Yahoo! Bing Network, has announced that they've integrated location targeting within their advertising system. With this update, advertisers will be able to improve on how well they and their ads can connect with their current and potential customers.

Bing has updated the reporting capabilities for Bing Ads hoping to make both the reporting tool and the overall Bing Ads system easier to use and therefore, make users more productive.

Social influence measurement platform Klout has integrated Facebook pages into its Klout Score calculations -- which should result in higher scores for page users.

 How many times have you typed a question into a search engine and received all kinds of inappropriate results? Microsoft's Bing might help answer your query faster by tying into the popular Q&A social site to provide more relevant answers and information. 

Windows 8 has been declared RTM, or released to manufacturing, by Microsoft, sending it to the hundreds of hardware partners for installation and testing on their PCs, notebooks and tablets. But what does the road to launch look like for businesses and developers?