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APPLY for Microsoft Ventures Accelerator - Berlin

Apply now for the 2nd batch of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Berlin Are you an early-stage...

Date: 05/05/2014

Windows 8 Apps That Should be On Your End of Year List

The holidays are here, and that means one thing: you are not going to be doing much work. We hope....

Date: 12/24/2013

Updates: Coreinfo v3.21, Disk2vhd v2.0, LiveKd v5.31

Coreinfo v3.21: CoreInfo is a command-line tool for reporting processor topology, NUMA performance,...

Date: 12/19/2013

Join BizSpark for a Studio Taping of The BizSpark Show with Special Guest Joni Cobb, PIPELINE CEO

Join a studio filled with Silicon Valley's Microsoft BizSpark members via our Livestream on Monday,...

Date: 12/05/2013

Meet the 1World Online App

One of our newest members, 1WorldOnline, has a brand new app in the Windows Store. They offer this...

Date: 11/12/2013

Updates: RAMMap v1.32, Sigcheck v2.01

RAMMap v1.32: This fixes a bug in v1.30 that caused RAMMap to fail on Windows 8. Sigcheck v2.01:...

Date: 11/01/2013

Update: RAMMap v1.31

RAMMap v1.31: This update fixes a bug in v1.30 that caused RAMMap to fail on Windows 8.

Date: 10/28/2013

Updates: PsExec v2.0, RAMMap v1.3, Sigcheck v2.0

PsExec v2.0: PsExec, a popular utility for executing processes on remote systems, introduces a new...

Date: 10/23/2013

WHO, first…then HOW MUCH: Investment Advice from DEMO

This morning at DEMO Fall 2013 in Santa Clara, Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld), Executive Producer...

Date: 10/16/2013

Microsoft Developers Capture Third Place at Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon

By the time TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2013 was over this weekend, five Microsoft developer...

Date: 09/09/2013

Special SlideShare Offer for BizSpark Members: "The Startup Of __________" on Twitter #mystartupstory

Every person, product, team and company started somewhere. What's that story? What were your...

Date: 08/15/2013

Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified, by Sonal Mane

Welcome to the ‘Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified’ series. In meeting...

Date: 08/12/2013

Autoruns v11.70, Bginfo v4.20, Disk2vhd v1.64, Process Explorer v15.40

Autoruns v11.70: This release of Autoruns, a powerful utility for scanning and disabling autostart...

Date: 08/01/2013

Tracy Lee, CEO, Dishcrawl: Boost Growth Through Strategic Serendipity

We talked to Tracy Lee, CEO of Dishcrawl, a 125-city foodie networking series that works kind of...

Date: 07/18/2013

The BizSpark Show Is Helping Startups Scale

When we started The Microsoft BizSpark Show only two short months ago (or maybe it was three months...

Date: 07/15/2013

There Is No Signal In Your Signal Anymore: Why Startup Marketing Needs a Six Step Social Marketing Methodology

Many of the startups in our 50,000+ membership roll have asked our team for some advice on social...

Date: 07/08/2013

How Pixsi Reimagines and Transforms the Shopping Experience

Founder and CEO Scott Andrews (www.linkedin.com/in/scottjandrews) conceived the ideas behind Pixsi...

Date: 07/06/2013

Bringing Volume to Serendipity: BizSpark Grows Under Microsoft Ventures, Germany Opens Microsoft Accelerator to Packed Event

A high-caliber panel of judges chose Spreaker, a digital music sharing service, as the most...

Date: 07/04/2013

Update: Autoruns v11.62

Autoruns v11.62: This release fixes a bug in version 11.61’s jump-to-image functionality.

Date: 07/01/2013

Windows 8 Design Principles Simplified Part 3 - Fast and Fluid

Welcome to the 'Windows 8 design principles for dummies' series. One of the key reasons for apps...

Date: 07/01/2013

Time Is Running Out to Vote for the BizSpark People's Choice Award 2013

On July 4, twelve of the top BizSpark startup founders in Europe will gather in Berlin to talk shop...

Date: 06/27/2013

Pride in Craftsmanship -- Windows 8 Development Part 2

Sonal Mane, a Microsoft startup technologist in Chicago, provides us with the second chapter in a...

Date: 06/23/2013

BizSpark Member myhomehelper Fights Dementia With The Cloud, Makes Technology4Good Finals

A one-man Microsoft BizSpark company from Hull is up against the likes of Barclays Bank with a...

Date: 06/23/2013

Updates: Mark's TechEd Sessions, Autoruns v11.61, Strings v2.52, ZoomIt v4.5

Mark’s TechEd Sessions Available On-Demand: Mark delivered four top-rated sessions at...

Date: 06/20/2013

Instagram Video and Facebook in Asia -- We Chat Live with David Weekly, Facebook Developer Advocate

Douglas Crets is talking with David Weekly, Facebook's Developer Advocate for Asia, at 3pm Pacific...

Date: 06/20/2013

Technology That Speaks for Itself: Nova, from Swedish Firm Veridict

Here’s a situation with which we can all identify. You’re out of the office working from...

Date: 06/20/2013

Doing More With Less in Windows 8 Development -- (Part One)

Sonal Mane, a Startup Technologist working for Microsoft in Chicago, walks you through steps to make...

Date: 06/17/2013

Get Your Map of the Microsoft Developer Platform World

This map comes from Microsoft Technical Evangelist Vitor Ciaramella. Feel free to share.

Date: 06/10/2013

BizSpark Members Pitch Their Startups in Less Than 140 Characters

Here are today's #BZPitch pitches. When you sign up to Microsoft BizSpark, you are introduced to...

Date: 06/06/2013

Updates: Autoruns v11.6, Procexp v15.31, Procmon v3.05, Sigcheck v1.92

Autoruns v11.6: Autoruns is a utility for enumerating and disabling executables and DLLs configured...

Date: 06/04/2013

Kushal Shah Wants to Destroy Cold Calling -- Meet O Funnel, a Windows Azure Accelerator Startup

On June 21, the Windows Azure Accelerator powered by TechStars will showcase a number of startups...

Date: 06/04/2013

New Flexibility Comes to Windows Azure Benefits for Microsoft BizSpark Startups

Today, Windows Azure announced enhancements and changes int he Windows Azure Offer available to...

Date: 06/03/2013

Peer Into Real Time Usage with TapMap, a Microsoft BizSpark Startup Tool Released This Weekend

The continually morphing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 ecosystem added another feature this weekend...

Date: 05/28/2013

Watch PandoDaily Founder Sarah Lacy Interview Silicon Valley Legend John Doerr

IT is with great pleasure that we bring BizSpark members a live stream of PandoDaily CEO Sarah...

Date: 05/23/2013

Up Global: Startup Weekend and Startup America Form New Partnership to Build Entrepreneurs in a Big Way

Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to...

Date: 05/23/2013

BizSpark Members Can Get Free Exposure for Apps with PreApps

Meet the founders of Pre-Apps -one of the newest partners joining the BizSpark community . With over...

Date: 05/22/2013

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