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Face it. You love coding. Or, you hate coding. For those who really do love it, and for those who find that some of their best ideas happen when they are doing other things, wouldn't it be amazing if you could switch on a device, at will, and immediately code to the cloud? Problems solved. You experience...

Spotted Zebra is a one-man independent game company focused on making original games for new platforms. You will notice one thing about Spotted Zebra right away -- that name. What is a Spotted Zebra? Clearly, the founder of this company is someone who enjoys the playfulness of language, and playfulness...

Today we talk with Webzai co-founder Amir Gabay about their website building template service, which they have hosted on Azure. " Webzai provides both PC & MOBILE professional templates as well as a simple editor with advanced features for creative users who want to start from blank or just customize...

The CEO of Georama , Nihal Advani, says that he's most excited that his company is set to disrupt the travel industry and that in doing so, he has the support of Microsoft. The company recently launched a Windows 8 app . According to Nihal, who spent five years at Microsoft in several roles, " Georama’s...

The folks at Corent have an interesting SaaS solution that they have put on Azure. Their solution, which they call SurPaaS™, supports Windows Azure as follows: Any software vendor can now deploy & SaaSify their application in Windows Azure Cloud. Moreover, if an MSP wants to offer...

Email is one of the most utilized and effective means for communication in business. It organizes meetings. It helps teams build ideas. It takes products from ideas to shipping. It's amazing what it does. But could it do more? If you are in the startup space, you know that there are many people trying...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you are a product manager in the pre-web world, you probably hated having to spend hours a day tracking and analyzing what was happening with the customer's interactions with the products. And now that we have the cloud, it's that much easier to get that data. You're probably still hating how long...

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...

BizSpark first met Danny Boice, co-founder of Speek , the app that should solve all of your conference call quibbles forever , when he came to our livestream show at SXSW. Boice is a very large, bearded, tattoed gentleman, who dropped out of Harvard University to pursue innovations in the technical field...

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...

Imagine being able to whip out your phone anywhere on the planet and with the help of an app complete any number of exercises that are going to get you into shape. Yes, one of the new apps coming to the Windows 8 store does that. Bodeefit's Windows 8 workout app helps you time and keep track of your...