That tag line is key. Elevate Digital , our featured startup today, has done one of those game changing things that you only see once in a while. Remember back in the day when, if you wanted advertising -- or sometimes didn't want it -- advertising...

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 &...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

It's a good thing we have a company like Distil on the web. The web is so open, and so free, that you never really know what you are going to get when it comes to marketing on the internet. Let me explain. You got yourself and three friends together...

Here's the best thing about our interview with Alexey Petrov, co-founder and CTO of penxy -- he told us to stop worrying about the interview and said that it was important that startups just use Microsoft BizSpark to start their business. Seems a fair...

Want an effective way to create real-time multiplayer games using a single suite of services and your developers' collective coding genius? We recently met a Microsoft BizSpark company that is basing just such a solution on Windows Azure. Metal Compass...

Part of the first graduating class of the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, MediSafe Project has vital, Big Data implications for pharmaceutical companies. From anonymous demographics, geolocation and patient behaviors to physician trends and other...

When my sister got married, she and her husband had pictures taken of themselves dressed up to the nines in front of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis. It was a bit of a hassle to drag all that equipment and the wedding party, and the guests, and the family...

Perhaps the biggest question for any company -- from small startup to big corporate brand -- is how do you get ROI from social media? Correction and Addition We originally published this article by misstating the date Thuzi released their Windows...

At Microsoft BizSpark , we are dedicated to showcasing startups that impress us with how they try to change old industries and business habits. We use this blog to showcase their business views and the work they have done to solve critical problems. We...

Benjamin Nitschke is the CTO of MobileBits and the CEO of Delta Engine, which is trying to bring a multiplatform game engine to mass market. But more interestingly, Nitschke is creator of the first commercial .NET game, Arena Wars. Nitschke also writes...

Imagine if you could pare your odds down in playing the stock market to just a few other people, and make your bets based on a smaller pool of people who were also placing bets on the stock market? you can do that. A startup in Britain has sought to gamify...

Meet SubtleData , a company helping app developers to easily connect their mobile applications with Point of Sale systems. Check out our interview with Richard Bagdonas, founder and CTO of SubtleData: Richard Bagdonas, Founder and CTO of SubtleData...

Timely is a cloud-based appointment management system for any SME requiring scheduling of their staff and services. Here is an interview with Andrew Schofield, the Co-founder of Timely. BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company...

Recmnd.me is an easy and fun way for people to recommend and rate each other. It’s great for employers and recruiters looking to quickly hire top talent or for finding the best realtor, doctor or teacher. Learn more in an interview with Jesse Gant...

It turns out that if you track a person's reading speed, and then match that speed with a song played at a pace with the reading, a person will comprehend more and retain more. This is what Paul Cameron, CEO of Booktrack, discovered with research from...

Remember when you used to get leaves of loyalty coupons in the mail? You felt special. But then you probably felt annoyed. There is a solution to that, though. And it's called loyalty going digital. When Patrick Setzer, CEO of bonusmagnet , told us about...

"Get to work. The fruits of your labor will not usually be fast. Most products out there are not people’s first. Everyone tells you this, but actually comprehending it is a little bit harder. Fail fast, is such an often used term now in the industry...

Skillendar is a neighborhood network and skills & services marketplace, built on ASP .Net and Azure, with the goal of helping people with busy schedules and limited availability. Check out the interview with Sundar Venkitachalam, founder and CEO of...

Meet the self-proclaimed RedHat for eCommerce, a French company working closely with Microsoft partners to build eCommerce solutions on Drupal. The Commerce Guys won the BizSpark Euro Summit title for Most-Promising Startup . They won, partly, because...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Playmysong, based in Finland. Below you will find an interview with Rami Korhonen, CEO and Co-founder of Playmysong. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Web site: www.playmysong...