Hertz hosts hackers

FORT MYERS — Car-rental giant Hertz is looking for the next great app.

The company, which relocated its global headquarters to Southwest Florida from New Jersey in 2013, hosted a hack-a-thon at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers the weekend of Jan. 24. There were 10 teams representing about 50 students.

Hack-a-thons are events that bring together teams of software developers in a race to develop software that can help solve a problem. The winning team created a damage-identification phone application.