by Molly McCall Military recruiters thought they had a tough job. But when it comes to enlistment and deployment, the Army could take a page from two giants of the cosmetics-industrial complex: Avon and Mary Kay . These makeup powerhouses truly know how to draft new blood; make house calls; and maintain a sweet-smelling, rosy-cheeked, powerful force. In recent years, both firms set up shop in China. Both contribute to the $29.

Today were excited to announce an update to the Bing app for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You can get it for free from the App Store on your device or use iTunes to download it . In the months following the November release of the app, we received great feedback from people with suggestions for improvements, many of which have been added to this release. For instance, weve made a number of stability fixes and usability tweaks, especially in image search,

by Claudine Zap If you're in the market for a used car, have we got a find for you: Queen Elizabeth II 's Daimler Majestic V8 Jaguar . (Yes, as in, the Queen of England ). Turns out, her royal highness likes to drive. And not, "Jeeves, take my car out so I can give the people a royal wave" kind of driving. The monarch relishes time behind the wheel, which harks back to her days as driver and mechanic in World War II.

CBS and the NCAA said Friday their March Madness on Demand (MMOD) live-streaming video player attracted record traffic for the first day of the men's basketball tournament. In total, there were 3.4 million hours of live streaming video and audio consumed, over 20 percent growth compared to 2009, with 3 million more unique visitors to the MMOD video player. Both figures represent the largest single day of traffic for a live sporting event on the Internet.

Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such sites are - in general, anyway - doing quite well on a global basis, according to new stats from Nielsen. Nielsen revealed this afternoon that people all over the world are dedicating a lot more time to social networks. A report stated, "On average, global web users across 10 countries spent roughly five and a half hours on social networks in February 2010, up more than two hours from the same time last year.

In addition to the blog posts, forums and other helpful resources you'll find here on the Community site, there's another site over on the main Microsoft Advertising site that's chock full of information and tools to help you make the most.

We in the Bing Webmaster Center team are very fortunate to have such a bright, vibrant, and helpful community of users in our Webmaster Center forums . From time to time, I will take a moment to highlight some useful and interesting threads found in the forums. The goal of this new, periodically published blog column is multifold. First, I want to identify the Webmaster Center forums as a useful resource for webmasters and SEOs who have questions pertaining to Bing,

It may sound painfully dumb to point out that Yahoo's technology is important to the company, but there you have it. Unfortunately for the organization, that connection also makes it seem somewhat problematic that Yahoo's Chief Technologist has moved on. Benchmark Capital announced today that Sam Pullara, who was Yahoo's Chief Technologist, has joined it as an Entrepreneur in Residence. That means Pullara, EVP Ash Patel,

Hi all, Anuj Nayar here from the communications team. I wanted to take a moment to point out a few items on our newly re-designed blog. If you're reading this on the blog itself (as opposed to in your RSS reader) then you've hopefully noticed we've made a few changes. For .

If your NCAA March Madness brackets are as messed up as mine, you'll need a distraction this weekend. Click to read the rest of this post.