Business & Tech
Former Morris Plains Man Proves He's No 'Hack,' Sells Startup to Tech Company
Mashery bought the Hacker League site in November.
A former Morris Plains resident and his Rutgers University buddies turned a side project into a solid business deal when they sold their startup website to the programming company Mashery last month, reports DailyRecord.com.
Mike Swift launched Hacker League in October 2011 during his junior year at Rutgers as a site to help make organizing Hackathons -- events held to encourage the quick development of software and applications by teams -- simpler.
Mashery, which was recently acquired by Intel for $180 million, purchased Hacker League for an undisclosed sum, according to the report.
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