Staying Up Late At The Disrupt London Hackathon

full Dropping by the Disrupt London hackathon at around midnight, we expected to see many participants losing energy or flat-out asleep — and understandably so. Instead, almost everyone remained appallingly friendly, enthusiastic and eager to talk about their projects. They may have gotten a boost from the traditional midnight offerings of beer and pizza, not to mention a mysterious… Read More

APIs Fuel The Software That’s Eating The World

Shot of room where TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon was held in NYC in May, 2015. That meant if you wanted to add a service like taking a credit card, you needed to code it all manually. Today with a few lines of code, you can tap into some remarkable resources whether it’s a payment network like MasterCard, a mapping service like ESRI or the machine learning engine that powers IBM’s Watson. When you look at the hacks that came out of the past… Read More