On September 10-12, TechCrunch Disrupt kicks off at the Concourse at San Francisco Design Center for another exciting conference filled with eager entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, esteemed panelists, and witty TechCrunch writers. This blog post...

The Bing Search API is now available on the Windows Azure Marketplace. Starting today, you can sign up in the Marketplace to access web, image, news, and video search results, as well as related searches and spelling suggestions using JSON or XML. Read...

Microsoft and Nokia have teamed up to create a new mobile app developers' program at Aalto University in Finland.

Ludovic Ulrich from Microsoft’s BizSpark team outlines how startups in India can enter the BizSpark program .

Microsoft is launching the first startup accelerator in the company’s history in an effort to encourage more entrepreneurs to build their cloud-based applications using Windows Azure.

Microsoft has launched its first-ever startup accelerator at its Israel R&D Center, with an expressed purpose of helping young cloud-focused companies.

The accelerator, which will rely heavily upon Microsoft's Azure cloud service, will be a four-month program designed for early stage startups doing big things in cloud, Web, and mobile.

The entrepreneurial scene in the UK , particularly in London, is waking up and beginning to blossom.

500 Israeli start ups joined the BizSpark cloud computing program .

It's International Women's Day and Siliconrepublic.com is tipping its hat to eight of the world's top women in technology .

The VC/Emerging Business Lead Bindi Karia calls herself a “child of the world” and her unusual background has certainly played a role in her success. Read more

Microsoft announced on 1st March the launch of BizSpark Plus, a program for business investors and startups in Singapore. Read more

The tech startup environment in China is far more difficult than Silicon Valley, and if foreign entrepreneurs want any shot at success, having the right partners and network connections will be necessary. Read more

At the DEMO Asia conference for startups in Singapore, Microsoft sponsored booths for a group of young Asian firms. The entrepreneurs at the event said the program was the main reason they now build on Microsoft products. Read more

Kiwi founder Alexei Dunayev announced he would be offering transcripts of every other pitch at the conference, for free, via his company’s forthcoming mobile app. Read more

Why Microsoft is backing a technology incubator for teens, an idea that Daniel Brusilovsky came up with at 15 years old. Read more

Check out these tips for startups from the world’s biggest tech companies including Microsoft’s Matt Thompson.

Calling on Windows Phone developers to join the PhotoHack Day 2 Feb 25-26 ! On February 25 and 26, Microsoft and Nokia are sponsoring Photo Hack Day 2 with our partners at Aviary and General Assembly. The original Photo Hack Day was the first image...

Rick Walrond, developer of the Windows Phone word game AlphaDrops, reports that he was able to use 90 percent of his original code when porting the game over to Windows 8. Read more

Microsoft’s Ben Riga (Windows Phone) and Eric Lawrence (Internet Explorer) worked with Grooveshark to help get the site working on Windows Phones. Read more

In an age of disruptive technology, the adoption of new products and technologies allows smaller companies to challenge current leading companies or existing business models. Read more

With a single Windows Metro app, startups will be able to target hundreds of millions of Windows machines of all form factors. Read more

The time to activate is now. Microsoft SQL Server 2012 is launching soon. Join the 12-city road tour where Microsoft experts and local DBAs will show you the power of SQL Server 2012. At the Tour stop in your city, you will: Dive deep into the tools...

The Microsoft BizSpark initiative was launched to foster web startups that use cloud resources to deploy their services. Read more

Microsoft unveiled its new BizSpark Plus program , designed to assist select accelerators and incubators, and TechStars announced the first benefit-related news to come out of it.