Microsoft is acquiring Apiphany, a one-year-old Washington-D.C. startup that offers an application programming interface (API) management product, Microsoft announced on October 23. Apiphany's API ...

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by John Cook on Apr 17, 2012 at 11:52 ...

Back in March this year Microsoft launched its first ever “direct” startup accelerator, based out of Tel Aviv, Israel. That meant it would, for the first time, be an accelerator owner/operator. Dubbed ...

Today, Microsoft is launching the first startup accelerator* in the company’s history in an effort to encourage more entrepreneurs to build their cloud-based applications using Windows Azure. The ...

Microsoft is “clearly not as far ahead as Amazon” in convincing startups to use its cloud computing system, but the company is seeing some success in the startup world, says the president of Microsoft ...

Project Teleport was created to decrease the startup time of containers on the Azure cloud platform, being especially useful in serverless environments. It's headed by Steve Lasker, program manager ...