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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...

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...

WNM Live ( you can find the Windows 8 app in the store ) was founded by Brian Hamachek and Robert Gerleman in a Palo Alto garage – just a few blocks from the garage where HP started. Brian, an avid tennis player, decided to build a social network for meeting new people after becoming frustrated...

We'd like to introduce you to Mark Bower, CEO of HonestyBoxx , The app, in Bower's words: Allows anyone to earn money from their blog or website by providing micro-consulting engagements to their visitors. It works just like the honesty box you sometimes see at small stores - only for websites. ...

Has the video game genre finally been recognized as a medium for education, without the content having to look like a school book? A Spanish development team creating DogFight Elite believes the time has come for a military adventure game that actually teaches. This interview was conducted for...

This has been the decade of financial hassles. It's become harder for vast swathes of consumers to afford that bright shiny object they want to buy, in order to feel they have achieved some success in life. For many that's a house. For some it's a jacuzzi. Maybe it's a trip to Disneyland with the kids...

This has probably happened to you before. Someone starts up a presentation with Power Point. Five minutes later you are checking your phone. The person seems to be reading from a script. They are saying the same thing that is in the slide decks. Where's the ingenuity? Where's the depth? Where's the subtle...

Shopping should not have that far to go to be the leading area of innovation on the internet. Yet, we all seem to know people who refuse to shop online. Whether or not that's a bad thing, we don't know. What we do know is that there is so much innovation available to the retail market these days, and...

Hold on, this next featured startup is going to make you think about how you use social, mobile and your identity. Welcome to SOLOMO , a web services platform that makes brands context aware and helps shoppers get personal deals around a digital identity that they manage for their retail experiences...

Our interview with Craftbox, makers of an app that launched in the Windows Store on October 16, 2012, introduces you to the mind behind one of the latest apps that makes full use of Windows 8 and its almost cinema-like presentation on devices, especially the Surface. According to Eduardo Costa, co...

Today we interview Riccardo Zanussi, founder of listiamo, a social network for lists. But the team's aim is much higher than social lists. According to Zanussi, the team wants to change the daily deals landscape. Listiamo originates from Barcelona. The four founders started their project to accurately...

The web is a pretty cluttered and vicious space. It's an architecture where a researcher can create a botnet out of 420,000 by running a simple binary script . Light Point Security provides secure web browsing solutions that use virtualization and cloud technologies to protect computers from web-based...

This is an interview with the Founder of our Startup of the Day, Mark Burch, about his upcoming "hands-free invoice processing app." It is not yet out in the app store, but you can monitor their blog for updates . APP: InvoiceSmash Do you build for scale first, or for revenue? How are...

When we first met Al Bsharah and Bryan Hall, co-founders of embarke , it was in Seattle, and they were just getting ready to wrap up their time at the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars. For being bright and sunny San Diego denizens, they did look like three months had taken...

When I sat down with the founder of MetricsHub , Charles Lamanna, he drew a graph on the white board behind him. The drawing depicted a convoluted path to enlightenment for someone building a startup. On this path, there are many, many ups and downs, and the point Charles was making in describing this...

Gaming has taken more than a few turns and evolutions since the days of Atari and Intellivision, to name just a couple of mainstream favorites. If you are a gamer, you've grown up and are no longer playing Atari. You are likely building your own games. You probably want to manage and monetize those games...

The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure powered by TechStars ended its inaugural class last week with a Demo Day in Silicon Valley, but that doesn't mean we should stop showing off the goodness. Here is an interview with Socedo, a social media marketing analytics company run by Kevin Yu, Co-founder...

The social web is a great forum for finding information instantly. It's funny how so many businesses don't harness it, or how many business owners don't know how to do harness it. A conversation I had last night reminded me of how necessary it is to solve this problem. A friend of mine is moving houses...

Twitter came out with an app this weekend that sends six seconds of video to communicate what's happening in real time to a user's group of friends and followers. Social startup eyeMe has a range of socializing applications for social sharing, including creating voice messages and the option to layer...

BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Mike Gardiner: I’m the Founder of Lime Rocket and the lead developer for our flagship gaming & engagement product Buzzy.IO. As a founder my role also stretches across product & customer development. BizSpark: What did...

BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Sergiy Korzh : CEO and Founder Sergiy Korzh BizSpark: What did you do before creating your company? Sergiy Korzh : I have been running another company, Korzh.com ( http://devtools.korzh.com ). We create .NET components and sell them...

BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Amine Chouaieb: CEO and founder, Amine CHOUAIEB. BizSpark: What did you do before creating your company? Amine Chouaieb : Consulting in Strategy, management and IT systems BizSpark: What is your company’s mission? Amine...

Company, Founder & App Information BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Brian Satorius: I’m Brian Satorius, the founder of Smart Shopping. BizSpark: What did you do before creating your company? Brian Satorius : I was working in cloud and mobile development...

I sat down and spoke with Tyler Griffin, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobilligy , an app that makes it super easy to pay bills while avoiding fees and controlling expenses. As more and more people use mobiles to do their computing away from the desk, or away fro home, this is the perfect sweet spot for a world...

Company, Founder & App Information BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company: Startup: My name is Byron Morgan and I am the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Vinylmint. BizSpark: What did you do before creating your company? Startup: Vinylmint was inspired by Byron’s...