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Bing Upgrades, Integrates Foursquare Data

Bing is rolling out what BoomTown calls "another significant upgrade to the user interface seen by consumers." As a separate app, Bing maker Microsoft also announced plans to integrate status data from location-based social network Foursquare into Bing maps.

"The foursquare map app is a powerful combination of the spatial canvas that Bing Maps provides, combined with foursquare's user reputation service ability to see who has unlocked specific badges ... making it easier to explore any city in the world as if you were a local," Bing's Tod Schwartz writes in a blog post. To date, Bing has already baked in updates from various other social networking sites, including Twitter and Facebook. For her part, BoomTown's Kara Swisher thinks Bing's relentless drive to innovate and improve its offerings is the real story of the day.

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