March, 2010

By Alpa Agarwal I’ve just read some cool news about Microsoft BizSpark startup Sopima: Of the dozen Finnish companies competing in the March 24, 2010 semi-final of the Innovate!100 Pitch Slam competition in Helsinki, Sopima Oy was chosen as the...

By Alpa Agarwal SXSW , MIX10 and DEMOSpring are exciting opportunities for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got a variety of fun activities...

By Alpa Agarwal Piryx, non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark will hold a fundraising get-together for Haiti, Piryxtopia Charity Bash , at SXSW. Piryx, a global social fund-raising platform, will help by making their service available for...

By Alpa Agarwal In the spring of 2005, Sam Altman, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford, had an epiphany as he walked out of class. Turning to his friends, classmates, and eventual co-founders Alok Deshpande and Nick Sivo, Sam asked, “Wouldn...

By Alpa Agarwal SXSW is an exciting opportunity for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got lots of fun BizSpark activities at SXSW lined up...

By Alpa Agarwal It no longer requires a big budget to design, develop and distribute a commercial, online game. Wild Pockets, a spin off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is democratizing game development and...

By Alpa Agarwal At the 2010 Mobile World Congress, Samsung recognized Formotus as one of its Premium Solution Partners while Formotus demonstrated its mobile business forms running on Windows Phones as well as Android. Microsoft, Motorola, Intermec...

By Alpa Agarwal Web developers and designers gathered in Las Vegas last week for the 3 day MIX10 Conference . The first day began with presentations and demonstrations of the Windows Phone 7 developer platform in keynote speeches by Joe Belfiore...

By Alpa Agarwal It began with a single LOLcat photo on I Can Has Cheezburger?, a site originally created by Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami, and has grown to a network of over 40 humor blogs including such popular sites as I Has A Hotdog, FAIL Blog...

By Alpa Agarwal Since releasing its real-time ad network, RiotWise, in January this year, OneRiot , a Microsoft BizSpark real-time search technology startup, has seen “explosive growth,” claims Tobias Peggs, General Manager for OneRiot...