Bing now has more detailed business listings in its search results, giving you quick access to telephone numbers, addresses, distance to where you need to be from where you're at, and shop hours ...

Dubbed the Bing Business Portal, the new system, which replaces the Bing Local Listings Center, has a bunch of fresh features designed to appeal to merchants.

Bing has added new options for editing and sharing inside of Bing Maps. The “Send” link on a Maps search result now has an option to send a business listing to a mobile phone via SMS.

Local business search startup Localeze just announced that they will power some of Microsoft Bing's local business listings. Microsoft will use Localeze’s 14 million listings for Bing Local and ...

Sure, map sites are generally pretty similar. You can see maps, find business listings, get driving directions, see images and stuff like that. But it’s actually more complicated than that.

Microsoft is giving search competitor Google a run for its money with the launch of its new Bing Maps Beta, a map application that features enhanced bird's eye and streetside viewing.

Bing Maps now lets you see all the businesses that are inside of large malls. So far, it is available only at a handful of locations--and on computers rather than mobile devices.

High-res imagery and a slick user interface make the Bing Maps Beta one of the best new Bing features, but it still has a long way to go to match Google's breadth.