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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Opens DEMO Africa 2012
She was not there live, but this is the video she sent in to DEMO Africa, which opened very early...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/25/2012
Live Stream of the Windows 8 Launch in New York City
We are covering the live stream of the Windows 8 launch in New York City right here.
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/25/2012
The Way of the MindSumo Warrior: Guest Post from MindSumo CEO Keaton Swett
In a place like Silicon Valley, it can sometimes feel like companies are started simply because...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/24/2012
Simplifying Big Data Interop – Apache Hadoop on Windows Server & Windows Azure
(This blog was originally posted on our Interoperability blog) As a proud member of the Apache...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/24/2012
Analytics for Your Apps, Even in Offline Mode
MarkedUp, which offers analytics to mobile apps makers, is going after the growing Windows 8 apps...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/23/2012
Updates: Coreinfo v3.1, Desktops v2.0, Livekd v5.3, PsPasswd v1.23, Testlimit v5.22, Whois v1.11
Coreinfo v3.1: This update to Coreinfo, a command line utility that reports detailed information...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/19/2012
How Developers Can Keep from Losing their Data in the Fog of Coding: AppFog founder Lucas Carlson Explains
Lucas Carlson is a magician and developer who lost ten years worth of projects when his server...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/18/2012
A Coming Flud? With Death of Print a Reality, It's Time to Get Granular and Social
Andrew Sullivan is right about the death of print. Newsweek print may be a dead beast in the muck -...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/18/2012
DEMO Africa Super Stars: Alison Jacobson, CEO, Firestring
Meet Alison Jacobson, CEO of Firestring, one of the DEMO Africa Final 40 set to pitch at the event...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/16/2012
DEMO Africa: Natalino Mwenda's Dream Proves Small Iterations Make Huge Impacts
I've never been to Dar Es Salaam, but I imagine that methodologies that spark innovation there will...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Manoj Nathwani, Founder of Price Trakker at 17
My name is Manoj Nathwani and I founded Price Trakker when I was 17. Price Trakker is basically like...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Getting Ready for DEMO Africa: Our Brief Interview With Collins Mugume, Founder of Meka
DEMO Africa is only a few days away. So, to get ready, we are showcasing interviews from nearly a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Prevent Bureaucratic Snafus with ID2Doc, a Bulgarian Disruption
A startup founder in Bulgaria is trying to make it easier for you to transfer information from ID...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/11/2012
People Don't Care About Your Product, They Care About Its Impact On Their Lives
Rather than help a consumer become more efficient, it's important to help them solve everyday, basic...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/10/2012
Get Inspired with Startup Weekend Perth's Team Gainspiration
How do you get inspired? Is inspiration random and accidental? I don't think that it is. I think...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
DEMO Africa: Pieter Nel, CEO, Kuza
Get firsthand information from one of South and East Africa's up and coming mobile solutions, Kuza...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
Windows Internals 6th Edition Part 2 Published, and Mark Talks Sysinternals History on Defrag Tools
Windows Internals 6th Edition, Part 2 Published: Part 2 of Windows Internals 6th Edition, is now...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/05/2012
New: PsPing v1.0; Updates: DebugView v4.8, Process Explorer v15.23, Sigcheck v1.81
PsPing v1.0: PsPing is a new Sysinternals PsTools command-line utility for measuring network...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/03/2012
Michael Jacobs and Jordan Syms, iSocialite at #DEMO2012
At DEMO Fall, there were a few trends, but culture as an app was the one that caught my idea. One of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/02/2012
TypeScript: an open and interoperable language
Today Microsoft announced the release of the TypeScript preview, a new open and interoperable...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/01/2012
DEMO Africa's Super Stars: Michael Ocansey, CEO of Kuzima
Michael Ocansey, CEO, Kuzima is one of ten entrepreneurs we are featuring during our run up to DEMO...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/29/2012
Rocking It at Tech Crunch Italy -- A Collective of BizSpark Startups Hit the Villa Borghese
Tech Crunch Italy rocked it. This blog post is written by Mario Fontana, Microsoft Architect...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/28/2012
Steve Ballmer Drops By RocketSpace in San Francisco, MSFT Building Windows8 App Lab
Today, CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer, dropped by RocketSpace on Fremont Street. He came to show...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/25/2012
Get to 30 to Launch, Make Something Amazing
With 525 million Windows 7 licenses sold, millions of people await Windows 8 apps. The think goes --...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/24/2012
Three Signs Your Startup is Winning with Consumers: Meet Krishna Gullapalli, CEO of Urban Cargo
How do you know you are winning with consumers? It's not as hard as you think. If you are building a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/21/2012
BizSpark Startup TheAppBuilder Lets You Build for Windows 8 Before It Launches
From now on you can build a Windows 8 app before the release of Windows 8 on October 26th. How's...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/21/2012
SoundCloud: A Project Manager's Perspective
When I was in Berlin two weeks ago, I wanted to know how SoundCloud, the massively popular sound...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/21/2012
Hungarian Startup Tresorit Helps You Feel More Secure About Transferring Files on Insecure Networks
Good times are rolling for Hungarian startup Tresorit. After impressive participation at a series of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/20/2012
Highlights from Startup Weekend Blacksburg
Our champions in DC area, Ashish Jaiman and Ed Donahue, were mentors at StartupWeekend Blacksburg...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/19/2012