The 12-person team is one of thousands of Hackathon teams worldwide tackling everything from social issues to inclusive design during Microsoft’s annual employee innovation event. Unloop wants to help ...

Computer programming competitions known as “hackathons” have spread like viruses in recent years as ways for geeks, nerds and designers to get together to eat pizza, lose sleep and crea ...

Is your company interested in code hackathons but unsure of how to plan one? Plan certain things -- but be flexible -- establish goals, encourage collaboration across teams and share results.

For Code for Philly’s final hackathon of the year, organizers decided to extend the big civic tech push into a whole month. Code for Philly: City Operations is the name of the project, which is ...

PowerUp Reentry: A Digital Solutions Day is a three-day hackathon that aims to help break the cycle of recidivism. Put forth by the Reentry Project — an alliance of 15 newsrooms including our sister ...

Not only do hackathons put companies’ new products on the map, they often score big returns for both the host company (which can monetize code) and for top hacker participants (who can win prizes).

Code for Oakland was one of the most diverse hackathons I've attended. It was refreshing to see so many women attending that, unlike most hackathons, being a woman was entirely unremarkable.

The Mountain View Hackathon, Courtesy of Google If there were any doubts left about whether Google still had its eyes on the TV prize, the geeks will lead you to the truth. Last weekend in both ...

The TC Disrupt Hackathon is just as much about the journey as it is the destination. More than 1,200 coders showed up in the SF Design Center to build something awesome, make some new friends, and ...

More than 150 young girls convened this past weekend at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn for the “Code A Brighter Future” Hackathon, a partnership between Colgate and Black ...

A common community Event organizers hope that the hackathon’s participants can continue to meet monthly to code and collaborate.

More than 200 students from 33 universities gathered Saturday afternoon to attend HackNY's fall Hackathon at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Fourteen companies ...