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Congratulations to BuzzNumbers and Figitt!
BizSpark startups BuzzNumbers and Figitt, are winners in the Startup Company category at the Australian Information Industry Association iAwards celebrating the top tech innovators in Australia. |
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The Future of Email: From Conversations to Decisions
Alex Mermod, CEO of Calinda Software, a BizSpark One company, shares his insight on collaborative-email to drive conversations into decisions. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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The subscription economy is here. How should businesses embrace this model?
Tien Tzuo, founder and CEO of Zuora, a BizSpark One company, shares his insight on the growing subscription economy compelling today’s enterprises to adapt how they do business. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Realtime search opens new doors in knowledge sharing
Kimbal Musk, CEO of OneRiot, a BizSpark One company, discusses the new approach of realtime search in indexing the Web. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Twitter-like services find traction in the enterprise
Hear about how enterprises are harnessing microblogging tools like Yammer, encouraging greater communication and collaboration among companies. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Not everyone’s ready for the cloud: 8 roadblocks software developers face
Hear from Gil Mor of Gizmox, a BizSpark company on the obstacles software developers face in embracing a cloud model. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Comic Books Go Digital with Graphic.ly at Comic-Con
Graphic.ly, a BizSpark One company, illustrated the future of comic books at the 2010 San Diego Comic-Con with its attractive digital comics platform and engaging community of readers. CEO Micah Baldwin was on hand to tout the company’s progress and demonstrate the application to attendees and media including the Wall Street Journal, KGTV (San Diego ABC affiliate) and many others. |
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Windows Azure Platform Benefits for BizSpark
The 8-month introductory MSDN benefits have been extended to 16 months! Read more about the benefits here. |
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The Future of Email: From Conversations to Decisions
Alex Mermod, CEO of Calinda Software, a BizSpark One company, shares his insight on collaborative-email to drive conversations into decisions. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Congratulations to Lokad – Windows Azure Platform Partner of the Year!
Lokad, a BizSpark One company was chosen out of nearly 3000 entries as one of the winners of the 2010 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards, recognizing exemplary Microsoft-based solutions for demonstrating innovation, competitive differentiation and superior customer value. |
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The subscription economy is here. How should businesses embrace this model?
Tien Tzuo, founder and CEO of Zuora, a BizSpark One company, shares his insight on the growing subscription economy compelling today’s enterprises to adapt how they do business. Read the article on VentureBeat’s Conversations on Innovation here. |
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Microsoft Partners with Dogpatch Labs
Microsoft and Dogpatch Labs have formed a partnership to foster entrepreneurship & innovation by supporting early-stage startups with facilitated access to Microsoft product personnel, programs & services, including the Microsoft BizSpark program. The partnership will also feature Microsoft and Dogpatch collaboration around workshops, meet-ups and other activities which extend entrepreneur access and visibility into Microsoft product organizations & executives. Originally founded in late 2008 on San Francisco’s Pier 38 and expanded last year to Cambridge, MA’s Kendall Square and New York City’s Union Square, Dogpatch Labs has fostered the creation of a virtual community of entrepreneurs not just by providing physical work space, but more importantly, a vibrant environment with which to collaborate, share ideas, network and impart best practices with each other. Read how Microsoft's New England Research & Development Center has partnered with Dogpatch to support entrepreneurship in the greater Boston area. |
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Microsoft BizSpark Generates Interest in Linux Birthplace
Microsoft BizSpark received a positive review from ArcticStartup, a leading, Helsinki-based, online publication targeting startups in the Nordic and Baltic regions. After his meeting with BizSpark Director, Sam Rosenbalm, ArcticStartup’s co-founder, Antti Vilpponen, wrote favorably about BizSpark’s support for startups. |
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Touching the Surfacing of Human Potential at TED 2010
Microsoft and the Kauffman Foundation share the belief that entrepreneurship and innovation are the great change multipliers of our time, and both organizations have many dramatic and compelling examples of these forces at work in driving positive change. In keeping with the spirit of TED, "Ideas Worth Spreading," we embarked on a project with the foundation to bring these stories to life; stories of how humans inspire, educate and preserve their culture and past. Read more about the Microsoft Local Impact Map on Surface. |
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Three new Web Application Toolkits make Web applications easy to develop, easy to use
Help your customers import events from your Web application into their favorite calendar - Outlook, Windows Live Calendar or Google Calendar. Integrate location data into your application with your own Web site branding. Manage free and premium application features and make it easy for your customers to trade up. All this and more can be done with three new Web Application Toolkits from Microsoft. Read more about the Microsoft Web Platform. |
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MySQL Users: Take advantage of your BizSpark subscription and expand your possibilities with SQL Server
Never before has there been a better time to migrate your MySQL solution to SQL Server. In addition to the software and support you receive by enrolling in Microsoft® BizSpark™, Microsoft is offering a wealth of mostly free migration resources. Get resources you need to migrate your solution to SQL Server 2008: free and easy training with our how-to-do videos, migration support including up to 10 hours of telephone support*, and sales and marketing resources, including visibility through our solution brief program, and much more. | |
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DEMOfall 2010
September 13-15, Santa Clara, CA
Gain access to the most intriguing products and companies launching from around the globe at DEMOfall 2010. |
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Mobile 2.0 Conference
September 20-21, Mountain View, CA
Focuses on understanding mobile ecosystems, building and monetizing new mobile applications, and exploring disruptive mobile innovation and business models. |
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Web 2.0 Expo
September 27-30, New York, NY
2010’s Expo will cover platform opportunities for the whole web ecosystem, particularly mobile, real-time, and the social web. |
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Web 2.0 Summit
November 15-17, 2010 | San Francisco, CA
Incisive plenary sessions, visionaries and executives across key industries will present their unique perspective on the Web's future-in-flux and how the tools and principles of Web 2.0 are impacting their businesses. |
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LeWeb’10
December 8-9, Paris
Tech conference attracting over 2500 participants from 50 countries, 2010 theme is ‘Platforms’. |
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