Healthtech startup Prebacked wants to reverse the incubator process

May 6, 2013 4:58 PM Angela Swartz
Angela Swartz

Most incubators aim to help startups land funding for their ideas, but one healthcare technology startup is aiming to change this model. Prebacked hosts pre-incubation programs that get customers (large enterprises, such as Fortune 500 companies) to pitch the problems …

Facebook & Gates Foundation expand their education hackathon

April 2, 2013 8:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Bright minds and top-shelf developers from around the world will be tackling tough, systemic problems in academics in a hackathon series co-sponsored by Facebook and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Check out this video from the White House hackathon

March 2, 2013 2:00 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

The Obama Administration hosted a hackathon a couple weeks ago to increase access to its online petitioning system, We the People. Here are the results.

Got milk? First ever “Growthathon” will help 7 startups get big and strong

December 7, 2012 5:06 PM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Editor's Pick Seven startups will come together with expert "growth hackers" to address challenges in distribution and acquisition.

Startup Spotlight: Womens Veterans Connect bridges gap between military and civilian life

November 10, 2012 10:49 AM Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant

Women Veterans Connect is a multi-platform service bridging the gap between women veterans and their communities by providing interpersonal connections, along with educational and supplementary life skills services.

Inside the largest student-run hackathon: A breeding ground for tech talent

September 20, 2012 9:50 AM Christina Farr
Christina Farr

In the Bay Area, if your tech company needs to expand its core team of engineers (join the club!), you better have an acquisition budget. Alternatively, hop a flight to the East Coast, where hackathons like Pennapps are the epicenter of a nascent hacker community.

Facebook takes its hackathon tour around the world

August 8, 2012 12:44 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Given the world's rabid interest in events like f8, the company's developer conference, and its Mobile HACK Roadshow earlier this spring, bringing more Facebook hackathons to more developers makes a ton of sense

Appcelerator announces coding conference and hackathon-for-good (exclusive)

July 23, 2012 10:00 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Appcelerator, maker of mobile development tool Titanium, is gearing up for Codestrong, its big code conference and hackathon set to take place in San Francisco this October.

In just three months, more than 500 developers will descend on the Intercontinental …

Startup Weekend goes global with offices in London & Mexico City

June 19, 2012 9:04 AM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Startup Weekend, the household name in hackathons, has expanded its operations to a much wider international audience. Although the organization has for some time been conducting hackathons around the world, it is now opening offices in two non-U.S. locations: London …

Facebook’s rocking, all-night hackathon kicks off with standing ovation for CEO

May 17, 2012 9:54 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

On the eve of the largest technology IPO in American history, the company at the center of all the hoopla is celebrating in a geeky-chic style emblematic of its eight-year history.

Friday morning at 6:30 a.m. Pacific, Facebook CEO Mark …

Facebook to reengineer the IPO with all-night hackathon

May 17, 2012 11:34 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

To prove that the “Hacker Way” is alive and well at Facebook, the social network will be hosting an all-night, employee hackathon at its Menlo Park campus and satellite offices.

The event, dubbed Hackathon 31, is especially significant for the …

Facebook employees take over Menlo Park campus with rooftop QR code

March 26, 2012 12:50 PM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

A few dozen Facebook employees have put their own massive mark, literally, on the social network’s expansive new Menlo Park campus.

The mark in question is a gargantuan, scannable QR code taking up 42 feet of rooftop space atop one …

Facebook’s Hacker Cup draws the world’s speed-programming elite

March 17, 2012 3:13 PM Dylan Tweney
Dylan Tweney

Editor's Pick

More than 6,000 hopefuls from around the world entered Facebook’s programming challenge, the Hacker Cup, in January. Three months later, just 25 finalists went head-to-head in a three-hour battle for supremacy today at Facebook’s new Menlo Park campus.

The winner …

The rise of the hack

March 15, 2012 11:09 AM Jon Mumm

Guest Post

I didn’t know it could be someone’s job to attend hackathons. I hadn’t heard of a developer evangelist before, so a year ago when I stumbled across an opportunity to become one, I was drawn by its novelty.

The mission …

Hackers land big checks as Spotify looks to open its app store by end of March

February 28, 2012 4:45 AM Ben Popper
Ben Popper

VentureBeat spent some time this weekend at the Spotify music apps hackathon, 48 hours of coding, ping pong and pizza in New York. It was an interesting chance to see what is possible on Spotify’s platform, and we picked up …