It seems that almost every major feature on Facebook started as a hackathon project. Hackathons are all-night coding sessions where engineers get amped up on caffeine, brainstorm ideas, and build ...

Facebook has reportedly scheduled an all-nighter hackathon for Thursday (tomorrow) at its Menlo Park headquarters. It will end with Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg ringing the Nasdaq bell ...

If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has held many official “hackathons” ...

The only rule of Facebook hackathons is you can’t work on work. Hackathons are Facebook’s overnight innovation sessions, usually held every six or eight weeks. In Facebook’s early days, hackathons ...

Facebook views hackathons less as group coding events -- though that model remains popular -- but rather as individuals brainstorming alone in a room shared with others, each focused on a business ...

Twenty-four hours was all they had. Gathered in a computer room at Facebook, college students from 17 universities around the world spent the night hacking away at an annoying problem. Update: we were ...

Facebook is ending 2016 by naming its favorite projects and products that came out of all the hackathons its offices worldwide hosted this year. One is a richer, more robust Safety Check: a team ...

From its plans to enter the world of smartphone gaming to giving its custom social network Miiverse a lick of paint, Nintendo seems to be all about sharing lately. Its next step on the path to ...

Junior planner Jessica Chen and junior art director Cynthia Subrata, both from Y&R in Singapore, beat out six other teams with their concept to further the mission of PhilDev. PhilDev (Philippine ...

MENLO PARK — Facebook Inc. is on the outs with investors and the tumbling stock price has dented employees’ morale and personal net worth. But at 1 Hacker Way, there’s no stopping the hacker culture — ...

There are dozens of hackathons in Silicon Valley every month, but on Monday Facebook hosted one with a twist. Rather than the college-aged brogrammers that usually dominate the coding marathons, ...

We've become accustomed to posts flooding our news feeds proclaiming that a friend has just completed a 5-mile run or taken their 3,000th step of the day, but that's not enough for Facebook. At a ...