While web-based video streaming and digital audio has become increasingly sophisticated, the quality of photograph images viewed online has lagged behind. At the moment, if someone was to try to upload a high quality image for viewing on a PC, tablet ...read more

A good, problem-solving approach to investment and company formation. That's Paul Berry, former CTO of The Huffington Post, and current CEO of RebelMouse , a social curation tool / platform that makes your social media doings so much more cohesive and ...read more

We are honored that Denis Crowley, Founder of awesome check-in and recommendations app Foursquare, will be sitting down for a live chat with Douglas Crets on May 23 . Biography from his LinkedIn Profile: Dennis Crowley is the co-founder of foursquare ...read more

Wisdom comes from experience, they say. We agree. At BizSpark , we try to deliver bits of wisdom now and again to the community so that the founders, developers, engineers, and business folks out there in startup land can use it. We saw four founding ...read more

Start-up competition season is in full swing and a couple of the big ones - the annual TNW Europe and TechCrunch Disrupt NYC – are both coming up later this month (go BizSpark finalists!) So we thought it would be interesting to get some ‘behind ...read more

We asked Jessica Alter , co-founder and Chief Connector of Founder Dating , to tell us what has happened to Founder Dating since she started it a couple of years ago. And we thought we would run this at the same time as we announced that we are working ...read more

Yesterday we wrapped up the Accelerator experience with TechStars in Seattle with our Demo Day. The packed event included more than 400 registered attendees, including 110 investors to watch 10 startups pitch their ventures. The demo day is one of two ...read more

What do artists and start-up founders have in common? There is one rather indiscriminate fact that ties them together: t he constant fight for audience attention. If you don't have an audience, you don't have sells, reputation, or legitimacy. This ...read more

General Manager of Bing Fund Rahul Sood showed up in NYC this week to open up the new Windows App Lab. Here is how things went down at We Work Labs . ...read more

To introduce our next Microsoft Ambassador, we turn to Singapore. Vishnu Prasad works for SGTechCamps, based in Singapore, and he is one of the twenty ambassadors we have around the world, who are looking in on the entrepreneurs and developers in his ...read more

Death is an easy metaphor, because it's so huge, and it commands attention. And tech reporting uses it. A lot. But what if you, like, really die? What perspective does that bring you? This post is written by Douglas Crets, the Community Manager ...read more

The Windows 8 launch is right around the corner and recently Microsoft and New York Tech Meetup teamed up to host a workshop and hackathon @WeWork Lounge in NYC. There were some really cool demos there with Purpella winning the hackathon with their ...read more

Lucas Carlson is a magician and developer who lost ten years worth of projects when his server melted down. His solution is a little bit of cloud magic. He came up with AppFog , a Microsoft BizSpark company, which reduces time and helps developers ...read more

Yesterday, we had our first Israeli Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Demo Day, and it went off quite well. The Next Web's Alex Wilhelm wrote a spot on what he thought were the three coolest companies pitching their products. Here is the writeup ...read more

This week, Israeli startups came to Microsoft's Silicon Valley headquarters and demonstrated their products in front of dozens of investors from around the world. We're running a series this week that gives the founders at these companies the oportunity ...read more

We asked Israeli startup MediSafe Project to teach us something about what it means to work on a startup. As it turns out, the entrepreneur lifestyle is very challenging. According to MediSafe founder You can follow them on Twitter @MediSafeProject ...read more

The Microsoft R&D Center in Israel, through the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, has launched a cooperative effort with the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Technion. This cooperation is the first attempt in the world, out of Georgia ...read more

Well, they are not talking specifically about you, but the way these people are talking, it's wonder you are not listening to them. One of the common traps for startups is that they stop thinking about what didn't get them into the game in the first ...read more

If you guys are around your computer around 4pm and 6:10pm PST, you can watch Microsoft Accelerator startup FreaknGenius on the news : ...read more

What makes the difference between a startup’s success and failure? What sets a truly great business apart from an average or mediocre one? It’s not funding, and it’s not the product. It’s the people. Every day, I talk with ...read more

As many of you might know, 11 teams just graduated from the FounderFuel ( http://founderfuel.com ) program as part of the Spring 2012 Cohort ( http://founderfuel.com/en/alumni ), and--you guessed it--applications are now open ( http://founderfuel.com ...read more

Congratulations to dotbox ! Awesome to see another of our East Coast startups make BizSpark Startup of the Day. I love the design of their site and the work they’re doing in the ecommerce and social media space. (Check out their clients list if you want ...read more