Jordan Crook and Matt Burns walk the line of hackers lined up to get into the NYC TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. Here's a video of their interviews. Part red carpet glitz, half laid back hacker slack-mo, this is a good view into what happens in the lovely...

After a whole night of hacking, we are onto the Disrupt presentations. Live stream videos at Ustream ...read more

Spoonhub, "a Github for recipes" took away the grand prize challenge at today's TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon. It's a beautiful looking app, as this video of the team presenting it on the emulator shows. And then here is the award announcement. http...

By Brett Laffel Come join us at RocketSpace in San Francisco every Monday night throughout the month of June to build great Windows 8 apps. Throughout the course of this four-part series, guests will have a chance to learn from Microsoft experts about...

The European BizSpark Summit starts June 7. We've got a lot going on right now in the run up to the event. There's this People's Choice Awards challenge. We're going to give the People's Choice Award to one of the fifteen companies that gets the most...

It's been a heavy media day around here. Some reporters from Endgadget and Bloomberg just got back from their trip to see the Microsoft Accelerator in Seattle. Photo courtesy Bloomberg The Endgadget piece focuses on several of the startup accelerator...

The TechCrunch Hackathon starts at 12.30 in NYC. We have three companies there. Aviary, an awesome photo software app , is showcasing at the hackathon. Aviary will help showcase their Windows Phone app and SDK . here is a link that hows how to...

Have your say! Vote for your favourite BizSpark European Summit Startup Finalist now! On June 7th, fifteen of Europe's best startups are going to be competing for the top prize in front of a panel of investors and influencers, not to mention an audience...

We've had a lot of signups for the 30 to Launch Series for Windows 8 happening at Rocketspace in San Francisco in June . So, we've decided to open another one in Seattle. Here are the details. Photo courtesy of Ttstam on Flickr under Creative...

JamPot have developed a Software as a Service (SaaS) product (TheAppBuilder) that enables anyone to create a mobile phone “app” for a fraction of the current developer fees. TheAppBuilder is a game-changing product as no technical skills are...

Shelby.tv recently won the The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam . It's a video web app that puts all your social shared videos in one place. Mark Voermans, BizSpark champ in The Netherlands, was at the conference, and he reports on why the judges chose...

TechCrunch Disrupt will be here this weekend, and if you are a developer and a builder of apps, you might like the two little contests we are doing. In fact, you might like these contests regardless of whether you are a hacker, a developer or a phone...

Today I am going to visit the Microsoft Accelerator at 320 Westlake Avenue in Seattle. Incidentally, the Azure Accelerator is accepting applications for ten slots to be given to developers who want to build a company, an app or a service on the Azure...

Sam Rosenbalm, BizSpark Managing Director, has been mentoring and visiting with entrepreneurs at the Kinect Accelerator class in Seattle since April. He’s also helped dozens of startups around the world figure out how to leverage Windows technology...

Bindi Kharia interviews Seedcamp co-founder Reshma Sohoni The BizSpark European Summit always attracts a stellar line-up of judges and guest speakers and 2012’s event in London on June 7 th is no exception! I asked one of the judges, Reshma Sohoni...

An event that offers up to $500,000 in prizes to financial-focused startups has finished running in New York and in Singapore and is accepting applications now for Belfast. That event will run on June 14. The Innotribe Startup Challenge is a global...

With just two weeks to go until the 8 th BizSpark European Summit , I thought I’d give you a sneak preview of the fifteen start-ups who will be pitching to our panels of investors and other VIP judges on June 7 th in London. Post by Ruud de Jonge...

Across different countries in Europe, more needs to be done to give start-ups tax reductions during their early years. We are creating new jobs, so it is in the interest of the European economy to help us, because we are the employers of the future. Governments...

I have met numerous wanna-preneurs over coffee meet-ups where folks have ditched their idea after working on it for long, simply because they found a successful competitor. Really? Ruchit Garg, CEO of 9Slides, an app which synchronizes speaker tracks...

Here's a live stream of the Business Insider #Startup2012 conference in New York City . This will give you some great insights on how to run your new startup. Great information here. ...read more

Today at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, high-level representatives from the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development, African Development Bank, Microsoft, Nokia, info Dev, DEMO, and the World Economic...

Most entrepreneurs are familiar with the term Other People’s Money. In fact, some believe Other People’s Money is the simplest definition of doing business. There is another OPM that is in many ways just as important, and that is O ther P...

We're running a few blog posts over the next week to celebrate the BizSpark EU Summit being hosted in the UK. Fitting Reality, one of the contestants from Russia, uses augmented reality to help women and men find clothes that fit them, in the styles...

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There's nothing quite like the smell of the morning air, or hoisting a decaf latte in the hand, and this new blog post that we're throwing up live so that you developers out there can watch TechCrunch Disrupt in its entirety. Microsoft is there, along...