In this age characterized by ceaseless technological advancement and digital transformation, the hackathon, a creative instrument has gained remarkable popularity among both industry and policy-makers ...

What do you get when you let a group Red Bull-infused programmers loose for 24 hours? PayPal is finding out. From now until November, the company is hosting Battle Hacks in 14 cities around the world, ...

Hackathons are events that bring together computer programmers and engineers to collaborate on developing software, hardware, or other technological solutions within a limited time frame — usually ...

Hackathons have been popping up like crazy all across the country and the world in the last few years. But, what is a hackathon anyway? A hackathon is a sprint-like event where computer programmers, ...

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.

ANKENY, Iowa — Nick Leeper spends most of his days writing code and building products for Des Moines-based start-up Dwolla. However, he spent Saturday "hacking away" at a program that another business ...

North Idaho College will host a free AI Hackathon on March 7, bringing together students, educators, industry professionals ...

In June, I attended the UC Berkeley AI Hackathon. I signed up after reading an interview of someone who won Apple’s Swift Student Challenge, where they asked her how she learned to code. She said that ...

If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has held many official “hackathons” ...