Five years ago Yahoo introduced their 24 hour hack experience to universities around the world. At first it took a while to convince school officials to open their buildings to a bunch of students for 40 hours to build, learn, network, and create cool projects that they wouldn’t learn in class. Yahoo HackU events have [...]
Yahoo! is no stranger to hack events. Between our internal Hack Days, Open Hacks, and the HackU events at universities around the world, we have introduced thousands of engineers to the joys of creating cool projects in 24 hours. We are also quite proud of our participation in one of the greatest hack movements: Random [...]
Hackers, mark your calendars! This weekend (October 21-23) an unprecedented event is taking place: WaterHackathon–an international hackathon bringing together developers to tackle one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Lack of safe water and adequate sanitation is the world’s single largest cause of illness, responsible for more than two million deaths every year. As the [...]
