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Loopt to launch on Sprint as first-ever social Mapping Service on a major US carrier

It may sound like an old news for those of you who are monitoring what is happening in the social networking/mapping space but I did not write about it when the news came (sorry for the delay): on 7/2/07, Loopt announced the launch of a social mapping...

Published Mon, Sep 09 2007 6:53 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Success Stories, social networking, maps, loopt

Mercora’s ‘M’ Delivers Anytime, Anywhere Music and Entertainment

“ Give me the music I want, when I want it ”. By addressing this need, Mercora believes its software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model could be the killer app for socially connected wireless music and media, including podcasts, video and more. The Mercora...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 6:17 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Success Stories, Windows Mobile, P2P, music

Data Synchronization from your Desktops, Laptops and Phone: a Growing Need

Personal Computers processing power have been following Moore’s law for several decades now. We now all use very powerful machines (laptops and desktops) that are able to do much more than just rendering web pages inside a browser. With the standardization...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 5:45 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Success Stories, Windows Mobile, Data Synchronization, Software + Services

Loopt Creates New ‘Social Mapping’ Service

Loopt was founded in 2005 by friends from the computer science departments at Stanford University and MIT. They set out to create a service that would be a valuable tool for people to find their friends and interesting places, communicate, and improve...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2007 7:33 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Success Stories, .Net, social networking, local, maps, Mobile

IDEES Program in France: Support Innovation and Development of the French Digital Economy

In October 2005, my colleagues from the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft France introduced IDEES , an initiative aimed at helping emerging software startups in France develop and grow. The IDEES program relies on partnerships with VCs to identify innovative...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 1:47 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: IDEES program, Success Stories

Take your photos, videos & music into 3D with iBloks

Americans like expressing themselves and communicating. This is the reason why many Web-based user generated content sites (photo, video) and social networking sites have been so successful in the US. But most of these sites are built on old 2D graphical...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2007 1:12 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Success Stories, WPF, User Generated Content, Vista, .Net 3.0

Spot Runner Wants to Change the Game in TV Advertising For Small Businesses

The TV advertising arena is worth an estimated $54 Billion a year (U.S figures), which is still much larger than the $20 billion/year of online advertising ads. Even with the fast growth of the online ad market, TV ads – and more generally offline advertising...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2007 12:52 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Advertising, TV, Success Stories

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