Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here. There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues is influenced by partners. How to start partnering with Microsoft Become a partner. The first step is ...

  IdeaBlade, Inc. EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA www.ideablade.com   Achieved Profitability and Microsoft Gold Partner Status Build better apps—faster. IdeaBlade’s application server and development framework accelerate the development of Microsoft .NET enterprise applications—enabling developers to focus on delivering ...

Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V. I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently served by their partners. This is primarily because their investors have their feet to the ...

Kaulkin Information Systems (KIS) is a software and solution services company that offers simple, yet powerful and affordable, multi-tenant Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business process management (BPM), document management, workflow and compliance technologies for heavily regulated and compliance-centric industry sectors. The company’s flagship ...

In late November, I spoke to John Shinal at Vator.tv about the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program and other ways that the Emerging Business Team can help a startup partner with Microsoft. The full transcript is below, or you can watch the video right here.   John Shinal, Vator.tv : Hi. We're here in Mountain View, California ...

  ScreenTonic SA Paris, France www.screentonic.com   Ranks as Leading Mobile Ad Platform, Works With Major European Carriers, Acquired by Microsoft 2.5 billion mobile phones in use around the world—and still growing. By 2011, advertisers will spend $14.4 billion on mobile media—or one-fifth of global spending on ...

This November I gave a keynote address at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco. Later I chatted with Andy Plesser, founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and opportunities for entrepreneurs. Some highlights from my talk with Andy: The biggest area where we've placed a big bet, and we've been at it for a while, is ...

  NewsGator Technologies, Inc. DENVER, COLORADO www.newsgator.com   Moving Beyond Outlook to Social Networks, Enterprise 2.0, and More Chew on this: RSS feeds and social media tools are more than a trend, they have ...

Social networking is here. And thanks to Leverage Software it is on popular public sites and major private community sites for some of the strongest and most innovative brands in the world, including The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, Charles Schwab, Apple, Oracle, Salesforce.com, Ingram Micro and even Microsoft. Founded in 2003, and already ...

I have always been skeptical of clean tech startups that rely entirely on their green credentials to stay in business. Government subsidies come and go - solar energy veterans will recall the carnage that resulted from the Reagan administration. And while many people claim to wear green badges on their chest, few are inclined to follow up with ...