Companies hold code hackathons to help build team spirit, learn new skills and even create valuable products. If the company has offices around the globe, some careful scheduling can create an ...

Hackathons have always been creative. They remind me of spontaneous music jams - only instead of drummers and saxophonists, we gather as product managers, UI designers and coders. Sometimes people ask ...

As a college freshman, Alex Wissmann spent his first hackathon without any idea what he was doing, building an app that was barely functional. But the project he made in those 36 hours was enough to ...