Bing partners Blackberry
By Pulkit Sharma

Microsoft’s Bing is spending big bucks and working out a number of alliances to keep increasing its market share.  Even though Google dominates in most countries, Bing has slowly managed to increase its market share in USA.

Microsoft’s Bing has announced a new alliance with Blackberry

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Bing has joined with Research In Motion (RIM) in announcing some exciting news for our joint customers.

This morning at RIM’s annual Blackberry World, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced on stage a new alliance between Microsoft and RIM, outlining how the two companies can work together to help people make better decisions with Bing on BlackBerry devices. Central to this collaboration, , Blackberry devices will use Bing as the preferred search provider in the browser, and Bing will be the default search and map application for new devices presented to mobile operators, both in the United States and internationally.  Also, effective today Bing will be the preferred search and maps applications with regular, featured placement and promotion in the BlackBerry App World carousel.
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