This is part two in a series of blog posts and interviews about Microsoft BizSpark companies that will be presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Here is an interview with John Bracken, CEO and Co-Founder of Speek , one of the easiest teleconferencing apps ...read more

Prateek Gupta went out with his TechCrunch Disrupt team to Times Square and found an unsuspecting vendor to try their BitCoin app on. Here is the resulting video of Pay With Bits, which got them named in a TechCrunch article last night . Having been ...read more

This was a great tweet. Madelena Mak wins Best Windows Hack at TechCrunch Disrupt , despite lack of resources. Projector didn't work and switched to camera in last second decision. Still win Best Windows app at @ techcrunch #hackdisrupt . What a ...read more

Guest blog by Alp Tilev It's that time again! Foot thumping music, party glasses, luxurious cars… are a just a few of things that come to mind when … Oh wait sorry wrong post. Let me try that again: Hackers, ruby on steroids, piles ...read more

Microsoft's awesome developer evangelist Reza Alizadeh won the Facebook-Heroku hackathon a couple of weeks ago. This was a big deal. Reza went on to TechCrunch last weekend and participated in that hackathon with a team of about four other evangelist ...read more

We got our hands on the script that the Microsoft Evangelists used to pitch their product. This is the original script for their app that helps you collect good karma every time you do something good for someone. I think it would do a fairly good job ...read more

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

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 ...read more

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 ...read more