Tag: PRIZE

Whether you love TechCrunch or hate it, you must admit that the TechCrunch50 conference does a decent job of generating exposure for startups. I had never heard of this year's winner, RedBeacon, before TechCrunch50, and I have no doubt that the publicity the company gets from the event will be at least as valuable as the $50,000 prize. RedBeacon is a local business finder that TechCrunch ...

The Netflix Prize Contest, a million-dollar challenge to improve the accuracy of the Netflix recommendation algorithm by 10%, has finally ended after close to three years. One team, BellKor's Pragmatic Chaos, claimed victory by showing a result of better than 10%, which kicked off a 30-day period where other teams would have a chance to top the leading score and win the million. That period has ...

You read that right. Colin Nederkoorn, the guy who's had $13,000 burning a hole in his pocket has handed the cash over to narf2006, having verified that his solution to getting Windows XP to dual-boot on an Intel Mac is authentic. Nederkoorn says that the solution will be posted shortly and that all further donations will go "into an account to sustain the open source project that will be ...