The Texas Bitcoin Association has announced they will be hosting the second Texas Bitcoin Conference March 27-29, 2015, a technological summit to showcase new developments that support Bitcoin, cryptocurrency and its proliferation.

The conference will include the Bitcoin 2.0 Million Dollar Hackathon, where teams will compete for more than $1 million in prizes and contracts. Organizers will also release their call for papers that focus on greater technological information about Bitcoin.

“The 1st Texas Bitcoin...

The Accelerator Network, which brings together business support services for high-growth tech companies, is working with the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) to bring together 50 of the UK’s brightest young cyber-security minds to tackle critical cyber security issues.   The three-day ‘hackathon’ will pool collective talent drawn from the UK’s thirteen universities which have been identified as Academic Centres of Excellence in cybersecurity research.

The event will take place in June 2015...

Mastercard’s MastersofCode Global Hackathon series for $100,000 in prizes is now on tour having completed two of the planned 10 events in Sydney, Australia, February 7-8, 2015, Hong Kong, March 21-22, 2015.

So there’s still plenty of time for Hackers to sign up for the future events the tour continues over the summer and autumn of 2015 around the world!

Sponsored and hosted by MasterCard, the Masters of Code competition features regional weekend-long events that will bring together the world’s top developers,...

To help support the startup community and underscore the power of a great domain name, the company behind the new Internet domain name extension ".CLUB" is awarding $10,000 in prizes to an entrant of this year's LAUNCH Hackathon taking place February 27 - March 1, 2015 in San Francisco. CLUB is offering every LAUNCH Hackathon participant a free .CLUB domain name from GoDaddy, and any teams that choose to use a .CLUB domain name for their LAUNCH Hackathon project are automatically eligible to win the...

Facebook is gearing up for its much awaited F8 Developer Conference due to begin today (10:00 am PST) at the Ford Mason Center in San Francisco. The 2015 conference will be held for two days this year until March 26. 

The conference will launch with a keynote by Mark Zuckerberg and end at 5:30 PM tonight followed by a party. Tomorrow will end at the same time will be followed by the traditional eight-hour “Hackathon” – Facebook’s hacking-marathon, which brings developers and programmers together to develop...

DSB Bank, previously known as The Development Bank of Singapore Limited, has just announced they are putting a blockchain hackathon sponsored by IBM.

Dubbed the DBS Blockchain Hack, the event will take place starting May 8, 8:30am to May 9, 8:00pm, at BASH@Blk79, Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore.

Interestingly, the main sponsor of the event is IBM while partners include Startupbootcamp, Infocomm Investments, Coin Republic, and Ideator. The weird thing is - blockchains are the underlying methodology and...

The US Government's Energy Department's SunShot Initiative has just announced the launch of the largest-of-its-kind, 60-day online hackathon to quickly build prototype solutions and products that address barriers to greater solar energy deployment and drive down the costs of solar energy.

The SunShot Catalyst TopCoder Challenge, found at the TopCoder website, is expected to be one of the world's largest ever hackathons online with organisers predicting that approximately 700,000 coders, developers, and data...

Uber has been letting developers half in the door for over a year now, letting them do small things like call a car to take you home from work that you just looked up on different apps, but it was always a direct link to the Uber App. But now the door has been swung wide open by Uber -  allowing for full and deep integration of their technology into third party applications.

With the recent announcement opening up a Request API endpoint, which essentially allows any app to make a call to Uber, even if you...

NBCU and Comcast to hack Immersive Entertainment at Disneyworld at the third Comcast NBCUniversal Hackathon in Orlando, Florida on March 28-29, 2015.

With the theme of Smart, Dynamic, Immersive Entertainment Driven by Technology,” local hackers will be challenged to use hardware, software and content to explore immersive entertainment for Universal Theme Parks & Resorts, Telemundo and Golf Channel’s GolfNow.

They will have access and be able to use technologies and concepts ranging from virtual reality to...