Neowin News Feed for: Hackathon

Google announces Nano Banana hackathon winners, awards $400,000 in prizes

Aditya Tiwari — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:06:01 +0000

Google has awarded $400,000 in prizes to the winners of the Nano Banana Hackathon it hosted earlier this month. Read more...

Microsoft's new book is called The Ability Hacks

Rich Woods — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 19:34:01 +0000

Today, Microsoft announced that it's releasing a book called The Ability Hacks, which is based on the stories of two projects from the Microsoft One Week Hackathon that took place in 2014 and 2015. Read more...

Microsoft sets up its newest Garage facility in its Hyderabad campus

Boyd Chan — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 10:52:01 +0000

A new 8,000 square foot Garage featuring state of the art facilities has been officially opened at Microsoft's Hyderabad campus. The new space aims to support and encourage local ideation initiatives. Read more...

Satya Nadella: Time to stop the criticism and do something about it

Brad Sams — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 01:16:08 +0000

Earlier today, Nadella took to the stage to kickoff a hackathon in Redmond and had a few things to say to motivate his troops who he hoped will churn out a few cool ideas during the eve Read more...

Satya Nadella sounds the alarm, literally, to kick-off Microsoft hackathon

Brad Sams — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 19:59:24 +0000

Microsoft is holding its //OneWeek event at its campus in Redmond and to kick-off its hackathon, Nadella spun up the alarm to launch the event that will have over 10,000 employees participating. Read more...

Facebook experiments with ‘Sympathize' button for less happy ‘Likes'

Andy Weir — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 00:37:28 +0000

Acknowledging the bad news that a friend has posted on Facebook with a 'Like' isn't exactly ideal - but the social network has been experimenting with a 'Sympathize' button for such situations. Read more...

Microsoft's Bing Fund to hold hackathon to target autism

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:21:03 +0000

The Bing Fund, the startup funding group from Microsoft, will be holding a hackathon this weekend in Seattle to help develop prototypes designed to deal with autism in kids and young adults Read more...

Microsoft sponsors first International Women's Hackathon

John Callaham — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:42:58 +0000

Microsoft is one of the sponsors of the International Women's Hackathon that's being held this weekend. It's the first all female hackathon with a number of schools participating in the event. Read more...

BUILD 2012 Hackathon winner Social Squares released

John Callaham — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:27:03 +0000

Social Squares, the Windows Phone-based 8 game that won the BUILD 2012 Hackathon back in November, has now been released in the Windows Phone Store for 99 cents. Read more...

Facebook hosting Windows 8 hackathon

Stephen Robinson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:42:11 +0000

Facebook will be hosting a Windows 8 hackathon at its HQ, Friday to Saturday, to give developers the chance to build social applications on Windows 8 and win prizes for the best hack. Read more...

WOWZAPP Windows hackathon starts tomorrow with thousands of devs attending

Vlad Dudau — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:34:59 +0000

WOWZAPP is the biggest hackathon in history according to Microsoft and it will begin tomorrow with thousands of developers across 5 continents creating apps for the Windows Store. Read more...

BUILD 2012: Hackathon names its winners

John Callaham — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:00:55 +0000

Microsoft completed the BUILD 2012 Hackathon earlier today, awarding app creators some cash for the winning Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 and Windows Azure app that were made in just a few days. Read more...

Microsoft hosting hackathon in November, will trade food for apps

Brad Sams — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:59:17 +0000

Microsoft, in an effort to promote many of its upcoming platforms, will be hosting a hackathon in November and is inviting students and developers to bring there skills to the table. Read more...