Team Blogs: Microsoft BizSpark

You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, "Actually, at this moment, that Bruce Springsteen song, Glory Days would be really good." But you can't listen to it, because you don't have that song on your device, because you didn't sync it properly the last time you ... Read More

While web-based video streaming and digital audio has become increasingly sophisticated, the quality of photograph images viewed online has lagged behind.  At the moment, if someone was to try to upload a high quality image for viewing on a PC, tablet or smartphone, the size of the image would compromise the delivery speed.  So, what usually has to... Read More

Charlie Key is the founder of Modulus. He dislikes it when things are not efficient. He dislikes even more that others run into inefficiencies when they develop software and try to get their businesses off the ground. So, he wants to help. Modulus is his way of helping. In his words, "We want to make sure that developers spend the least amount of t... Read More

We are honored that Denis Crowley, Founder of awesome check-in and recommendations app Foursquare, will be sitting down for a live chat with Douglas Crets on May 23.  Biography from his LinkedIn Profile: Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare, a service that combines social networks, location awareness and game mechanics to encourage peopl... Read More

From Israel, we showcase today's Azure featured startup, Project RAY. Project RAY, according to founder Boaz Zilberman, "uses Azure as the only Internet-based infrastructure for its activity. The main use is in building a repository of audio books with a set of API that enables a wide range of client applications and platform to globally access it ... Read More

Every entrepreneur finds a problem and then builds a company to fix it. Sometimes the solution is an app that really only fixes a "problem" in an entertaining way. Sometimes the solution actually creates a problem -- like the invention of search creating the difficult problem of finding people you don't know you need to know. But with Let's Play Pl... Read More