As per an announcement, the 6th edition of Yahoo! Hack in India 2013 was conducted successfully where over 250 developers from more than 20 states participated in this 24-hour Hackathon. These developers were involved in building 56 hacks in just 24 hours. 8% of the hackers at the event were women. The theme of the Hackathon was based around mobile and personalization. Most of the Hacks submitted were around geo location, science-based apps on sentiment analysis, photo-based apps and SMS.
In order to be eligible to win, the hack had to use at least one Yahoo! technology. Yahoo! also announced names of the winners of the event.
Varun Kumar Nagarajan, Arun Kumar Nagarajan, Raghu Ram and Amit Bharti won the awards for the mobile app "PlanMan". This app is developed to allow the users to do workflow management through SMS and Missed calls.
Best Technical Hack award was given to Sagar Pandey, Rohan Prinja, Shahid Khan and Ahamed Salim for the mobile traveller app "Train Tracker" which asks for users PNR number to provide them real-time train information on an ongoing journey.
Yogesh Joshi and Dinesh Salve bagged Best Potential Product award for iOS app "iCity" which gives user's basic information about the city they are visiting. Hacker's choice award was given to Abhimitra Kartikeya Surabhi, Rakesh Tadisetty, Amiit Kumar Tiwari and Sudheesh Singanamalla for “AI Finance” app which uses Artificial Intelligence to predict the upcoming stock values.
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