Last year, Mozilla introduced Firefox with Bing. This takes Firefox deeper into the Microsoft ecosystem for those who like it just enough to still avoid using Internet Explorer.

“It also gives your Firefox an MSN theme and provides quick access links to popular MSN channels so you can easily get real time updates for news, entertainment, sports and the things that matter most to you,” Mozilla says of the new offering.

You can download the browser itself here, or if you are already using Firefox, simply download the Firefox with MSN add-on.

There are about 20 different customized versions of Firefox available, including versions tailored to fans of AOL, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex.

“This strategic relationship with MSN delivers Fandango’s expansive ticketing capabilities and mobile innovations to millions of additional movie fans across the country,” said Rick Butler, executive vice president and general manager of Fandango. “The deal reflects the company’s ongoing strategy to provide access to Fandango’s broad network of screens and movie content for fans on every platform.”

Fandango is quickly becoming the movie-ticketing back-end for what seems to be the entire internet. Earlier this year it was announced that Fandango had reached an agreement with Yahoo to become its online and mobile ticketer, similar to MSN. Another agreement was made in May with AOL to partner with its rival Moviefone ticketing service. It’s clear that Fandango is becoming the company to beat in this space, and its sales numbers are only looking up.

Along with the MSN announcement, Fandango took the opportunity to brag about its recent milestones. This May was Fandango’s best-selling in history with a 47% increase from last year’s ticket sales and34 million more monthly site visitors than last year. While it’s true that the wild success of “The Avengers” and the overall poor quality of 2011′s movie lineup may have combined to slightly inflate these numbers, there is no doubt that Fandango has carved out a successful niche for movie ticket sales.

It’d a pretty simple Twitter promotion – all you have to do is follow @MSN and then retweet the tweet seen below during the promotional period (which started today at 12 pm PST and runs until April 12th at 11:59 pm PST)

One grand prize winner will be chosen at random sometime on April 13th. They will win a trip for two to Las Vegas, along with two tickets to see Florence and the Machine on April 21st. The prize package includes round-trip air fare as well as hotel accommodations for two nights.

If you’re the lucky winner, they will notify you via direct message on Twitter. While you wait for the random drawing, why don’t you get up to speed with some tunes from the band:

“msnNOW scours real-time sources, including Facebook, Twitter, Bing, and BreakingNews.com, so you can stay up on what everyone is talking about and join the conversation,” a Microsoft spokesperson tells WebProNews.

“Whether you’re looking for the latest election trends or celebrity gossip, you can easily sort through topics that you care most about, including entertainment, sports, lifestyle, news of the day and finance,” the spokesperson says. “And, the ‘Biggest Movers’ feature lets you keep track of the day’s most buzzed about and discussed topics from millions of analyzed tweets, comments, and searches, letting you see what’s on the way up and what’s about to be old news.”

“You can access msnNOW whenever and wherever, including on your PC, mobile device, tablet, Facebook or Twitter,” the spokesperson adds. “For more information, go to the MSN blog post and MSN Virtual Press Kit for the video, screenshots, and to learn more about the people behind msnNOW. The embed code for the video is included below.”

I don’t know how many trend services we really need, but this one is does have a leg up on some other ones given that it is a combination of search trends as well as trends from Facebook and Twitter.

The launch follows the recent launch of a new MSN iPad app.

The app also includes a variety of sharing features. Users can email links to what they’re viewing, as well as post them to Facebook and Twitter. It also sports a Bing search box at the top of the screen.

The app is available now in the iOS App Store as a free download. There aren’t many reviews up yet in the App Store, but so far users seem pretty pleased. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments.

It’s split up into six main channels: News, Sports, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Cars and Video. As far as search, it comes with Bing obviously. Given the popularity of the iPad and iPad apps, this could be a new opportunity for Bing to grab a bit more market share.

“Just like its desktop counterpart, the MSN iPad app uses Bing to search the web,” says Microsoft’s Leena Shah. “The Bing search box can be found at the top of your screen. To perform a search just tap into the Bing search box located at the top of the app. Don’t worry about having to exit the app, Bing will perform a web search without leaving the app – just hit ‘search’ on the keyboard to begin. When you’re done, tap the blue ‘Done’ button to close the search window.”

As others have pointed out, the design of the app bears a striking resemblance to the popular Pulse news reader app.

The app is currently available to download (for free) from Apple’s iPad App Store and iTunes.

You can search Bing for "Golden Globes" and get an instant answer at the top of the results, showing relevant content. Here you can see nominees, past winners, etc. 

Another feature, Golden Globe Visual Search Gallery, lets you check out nominees in all the different categories visually. "Whether you’re looking for ‘best original score’ or ‘best motion picture’, you can sort by category in a matter of clicks," says the Bing team. 

Microsoft also has a Golden Globes guide that you can check out to catch up. "To help prime you for the ceremony, MSN Entertainment has created a guide for the event with comprehensive coverage on the nominees, red carpet coverage from the event, photos and videos of the stars and even the latest celebrity news," the Bing team says. 

The content will of course be updated as the ceremony goes on and afterwards, so if you can’t watch it, but are interested in the results, this should be a good place to find what you’re looking for. 

Granted, the results will no doubt be all over Twitter, Facebook, Google, and everywhere else on the web.