Top Stories of the Day // November 26, 2016

Siren Care makes a “smart” sock to track diabetic health | Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile | Watch Dogs 2 lampoons Silicon Valley with open-world hacking fun | Salesforce serves as training ground for SaaS startup execs | How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers | Machine learning can fix Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even America | Peter Thiel taps a principal at Founders Fund for Trump’s transition team |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Buhr Siren Care makes a “smart” sock to track diabetic health Diabetic health tracking startup Siren Care has created smart socks that use temperature sensors to detect inflammation — and therefore injury —... Read More… Sarah Perez Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile Black Friday online shopping is continuing to grow, and this Friday was another record-breaking day. According to a new report out this evening from Adobe,... Read More… Darrell Etherington Watch Dogs 2 lampoons Silicon Valley with open-world hacking fun Kind of like the TV series Person of Interest but somehow with even less humor. Watch Dogs 2 is luckily nothing like that, with a bright, vividly accurate San... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT The Oscars of Tech - The Crunchies Awards TechCrunch kicks off 2017 with the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards Show, the award ceremony to recognize and celebrate the most compelling startups, internet, and technology innovations of the year. We've just announced our finalists and we can't wait to see who wins! Buy your tickets today. Learn More Ron Miller Salesforce serves as training ground for SaaS startup execs When startups go looking for executive talent, they want someone with some experience working for a successful organization. When it comes to the cloud, there... Read More… Sharon Wienbar How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers Leaders at tech startups are alarmed by the absence of women from mission-critical roles -- software engineering, especially. This article is a how-to guide for... Read More… Jonathan Shieber Machine learning can fix Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even America Quitting Twitter is easy — I’ve done it a hundred times. Someone called it “a clown car that drove into a gold mine,” and like all clown... Read More… Connie Loizos Peter Thiel taps a principal at Founders Fund for Trump’s transition team Peter Thiel is famously loyal to his employees and vice versa. Many of the dozens of people employed by his venture firm, Founders Fund, once worked for Thiel... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: CRM Berater (m/f) at eGym GmbH (München, Deutschland) C++ Developer - Qt Product Development (m/f) at eGym GmbH (München, Deutschland) Full Stack Engineer at FactorChain at The Sourcery (Los Altos, CA, United States) UI Engineering @ FactorChain at The Sourcery (Los Altos, CA, United States) Senior Backend Engineer @ MeetMe at The Sourcery (San Francisco, CA, United States) 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