Microsoft shares tech wealth with startups
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft offered technologies that it developed to two more European companies, as part of its push to help accelerate innovation among startup companies, the software giant said on Monday.
The agreements are part ofMicrosoft's IP Ventures program, an initiative started last year to transfer technologies developed in Microsoft research labs to startup companies.
Microsoft gave U.K. company Skinkers Ltd. the IP rights to P-to-P (peer-to-peer) technology that it has developed in exchange for a 10 percent equity stake in the company, said Rob Noble, Skinkers' chief operating officer.