Top Stories of the Day // July 23, 2016

Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in a first week ever | Pokémon Go is doing a lot of good, here are 3 surprising ways | Why did Unilever pay $1B for Dollar Shave Club?   | Facebook’s new open source project makes it easier to get started with React | Running at 150,000 RPM, this tiny motor could help satellites keep on course | Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk’s master plan, Peter Thiel speaks at RNC and iPhone 7 leak | WikiLeaks publishes 19,252 DNC-related emails packed with personal information |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, JULY 23 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Romain Dillet Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in a first week ever Apple has told TechCrunch that Pokémon Go has broken an impressive App Store record. While the game was only available in a few countries at the time, the app... Read More… Lucia Maffei Pokémon Go is doing a lot of good, here are 3 surprising ways “What are they doing?” That was the question an older woman, probably around 70 or so, asked me yesterday. She was pointing to a group of 18-ish... Read More… Ryan Caldbeck Why did Unilever pay $1B for Dollar Shave Club?   Personal care; food; beverages --- in category after category, the pattern is the same. We are seeing the systematic outsourcing of R&D to new retail and... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Draftkings CEO Jason Robins To Talk Fantasy Sports At Disrupt SF Jason Robins will come to Disrupt SF to talk about daily fantasy sports and how he continues to grow his company and score investments from the likes of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Learn More… Frederic Lardinois Facebook’s new open source project makes it easier to get started with React Facebook’s React project is an open source library that allows developers to quickly build apps and their user interfaces in JavaScript. But... Read More… Devin Coldewey Running at 150,000 RPM, this tiny motor could help satellites keep on course The future is small in space: picture Cubesats the size of toasters and Femtosats an inch across crowding the skies. A newly invented motor that’s both... Read More… Anna Escher Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk’s master plan, Peter Thiel speaks at RNC and iPhone 7 leak History was made this week in tech as Peter Thiel wowed the crowd at the RNC, Elon Musk exposed Master Plan Part Deux and we saw yet another iPhone 7 leak. Read More… Devin Coldewey WikiLeaks publishes 19,252 DNC-related emails packed with personal information WikiLeaks has put online a searchable database of thousands of emails sent to and from top figures in the Democratic National Committee — many of which... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Machine Learner at ThinkTopic (Boulder, CO) Algorithmic Software Engineer at ThinkTopic (Boulder, CO) Sr. Engineer, Machine Learning at Vulcan Inc (Seattle, WA, United States) Marketing Operations Manager @ Glint at Glint (Redwood City, CA, United States) Senior DevOps Engineer at Greenhouse Software (New York, New York) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service