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06:19 PM Monday, June 16, 2008
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Experticity , the Seattle based sales closing platform currently part of the MS Accelerator Program is, well, accelerating, in market traction and customer adoption. Experticity enables service businesses (retail, banking, other) to deliver live, on-screen
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11:33 PM Tuesday, June 10, 2008
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I just started to engage with a cool vertical company - Canopy Financial based out of San Francisco. This company provides a 100% .NET SaaS solution to connect the healthcare and financial services industries. Their core product is a complete set of healthcare
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01:44 PM Thursday, June 05, 2008
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StoreXperience is an innovative company I have discussed in previous blogs that’s building a Personal Mobile shopping assistant application for consumers with mobile phones and devices. Their technology is based 100% on Microsoft’s technologies, leveraging
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01:37 PM Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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A couple of months ago, I hosted a roundtable in the Silicon Valley between Venture Capitalists and senior executives of our Health Solutions Group. At this roundtable, the Health Solutions group unveiled to investors for the first time their partnership
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01:17 AM Wednesday, June 04, 2008
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Over the last fiscal year, I have had the pleasure of working the management team of Xterprise - a very innovative company based in Dallas, that extends Microsoft's core products to bring RFID technologies to enterprises. Xterprise provides a solution
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12:28 AM Thursday, May 15, 2008
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During the course of this fiscal year, I have worked with a number of very innovative companies building applications targeted a vertical markets. These companies showcase how Microsoft technologies can be used to create game changing solutions that can
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11:39 PM Friday, May 09, 2008
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Unleashing the power of the mobile internet, fring™ is a community and service that enables users to talk, chat and interact with other fring users and their favourite online communities & services, all from their mobile devices. Originating from
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02:35 PM Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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Microsoft Auto is a new product group at Microsoft I have been engaged with over the last several months. The goal of this team is to provide a connected experience in cars for consumers. Two way data connectivity will allow consumers to get access to
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06:12 PM Thursday, April 17, 2008
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Yesterday the Emerging Business team had the pleasure of hosting VCs at our Silicon Valley campus at our first roundtable on Microsoft's investments in the Health Care space. Distinguished members of the new Health Solutions Group ( a product team formed
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07:16 PM Thursday, March 20, 2008
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Watch While You Wait, Don't Wait While You Watch Bamboo MediaCasting is a cool Israeli emerging company that provides the first “DVR” like application for mobile phones . Their solution set provides innovative solutions and support services for mobile
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12:20 PM Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Skoots (formally AutoBid Systems) made a big splash at this years National Automotive Dealer Association (NADA) conference in San Francisco this past week. Readers to my blog may recall I discussed their innovative solution which is set to transform the
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04:48 PM Monday, March 03, 2008
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03
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One of the most obvious trends I observed at the World Mobile Congress were startups that are beginning to interweave entertainment like TV and games with mobile social networking themes. One company I met that I think have a really standout solution
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12:45 PM Thursday, February 28, 2008
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One of the best ISVs I saw at the World Mobile Congress is a cool startup called Vyond. This Israeli startup creates mobile virtual world experiences on the mobile phone. The company has a platform which can allow users to create avatars, virtual communities,
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10:41 AM Saturday, February 23, 2008
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Continuing my review of cool startups I saw at the World Mobile Congress - the next company I want to review is VIIF. VIIF is a German startup, potentially disruptive company that I was introduced to by investors, Neuhaus Venture Partners a German Venture
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11:05 PM Thursday, February 21, 2008
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Freedom Shopping is a startup with a point-of sale solution aimed at enabling RFID technology to be deployed universally around the world. The core of their solution is a kiosk like system which will sit on isles in retail stores, supermarkets etc. Users
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