Law firms and others are relying on friendly competition to boost their legal tech training and adoption efforts.

Hackathons, those one- or two-day innovation sprints in which teams of like-minded, well-intentioned, super-excited people gather to develop solutions to a designated challenge, can often be less ...

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 ...

Meet Pedram Keyani, the coder behind the nocturnal events that shake up Facebook. Yes, we’re talking kegerators, Zuck’s hammock–and coding. Kicking off a Facebook hackathon, with Pedram Keyani, left.

There isn't a month that goes by where, in a city somewhere, a hackathon is taking place sponsored by a consultancy, organisation or educational institution. A hackathon is an event which has become ...

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.

I’m sure we’ve all heard of the term ‘hackathon’ being bandied around, conjuring up images of developers hunched over laptops in the dead of night, pizza stains on their graphic tees, and surrounded ...

On the eve of Facebook’s public offering, while the world obsessed over the company’s market value and direction, employees gathered in their new Menlo Park headquarters and got to work, hacking away ...

Purpose-driven innovation happens with an unparalleled urgency, focus and determination to find what’s missing. The first 48 hours are especially critical if you want help from your innovation ...

When Moshe Tamssot walked out of a Chicago hackathon in August 2010, he had a new business and a new business partner. Most hackathon attendees go just to have fun, of course, and that’s been enough ...