It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build ...

Seven strangers from different generations, cultures, jobs and even continents came together with a winning idea for Microsoft’s Global Hackathon when they discovered they’d all had the same ...

Hackathon prize money keeps rising each year as organizations learn to take advantage of their value. Runner-up cash prizes are now in the thousands, and grand-prize payouts are as high as $1 million.

One of America’s oldest toy companies, Hasbro, recently gathered 150 developers and created 45 products in just a few days that traditionally could have cost billions of dollars and possibly years of ...

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As the gospel of Silicon Valley-style disruption spreads to every sector in the economy, so too have the industry’s favorite competitive ritual, hackathons. The contests, where small teams of “hackers ...

Thinking about organizing a hackathon to power up new innovations? Read these tips to make sure you host a fun, impactful event. Hackathons have taken the world by storm, happening all over the globe ...

The key to organizing a hackathon is to start with “Why?” As Simon Sinek says in "Start with Why", great leaders inspire action because what motivates them is the meaning of a situation, not what to ...