Top Stories of the Day // September 17, 2016

Google Maps picks up mapping analytics and visualization startup Urban Engines | Apple just killed one of the best battery saving hacks for your iPhone | There's an Intel modem and an extremely skinny A10 chip inside the iPhone 7 | The race to be the all-in-one app | Venture capital is a hell of a drug | Microsoft will close its Skype office in London | Two million people streamed the NFL on Twitter last night and loved it |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Brian Heater Google Maps picks up mapping analytics and visualization startup Urban Engines This isn’t so much an acquisition as a welcoming back into the fold. Urban Engines was formed in 2014 by a bunch of former Google employees, with backing... Read More… Jon Russell Apple just killed one of the best battery saving hacks for your iPhone There's plenty to like about iOS 10 -- assuming that it didn't brick your iPhone or iPad, of course -- but you probably don't know that Apple has quietly killed... Read More… Brian Heater There's an Intel modem and an extremely skinny A10 chip inside the iPhone 7 While the rest of the iPhone obsessed world was getting ready to stand in line or just impatiently waiting for their pre-order to arrive, the teams at iFixit... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Free Exhibit Space @ Disrupt London At TechCrunch's upcoming Disrupt London, 5-6 December, we will host a startup pavilion for healthtech companies. Because there are lots of very early-stage startups in healthtech and biotech, we are offering five companies in each category the chance to exhibit free of charge! Learn More Navneet Singh, Sonny Singh The race to be the all-in-one app There's no denying that app fatigue is posing a challenge not just for new app discovery, but for new behavior discovery. So why don't the most popular apps... Read More… Eric Paley Venture capital is a hell of a drug Cheap and accessible capital has advantages: More founders get to pursue big dreams and previously "unfundable companies" not only raise huge amounts of... Read More… Darrell Etherington Microsoft will close its Skype office in London Microsoft is going to close Skype’s London office, in a move that could impact the jobs of the nearly 400 people employed there. The company told the... Read More… Fitz Tepper Two million people streamed the NFL on Twitter last night and loved it The NFL just released numbers on last night’s debut of NFL’s Thursday Night Football on Twitter, and they are pretty damn good. More than 2M people... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Head of Operations @ Teforia at Teforia (San Francisco, CA, United States) Software Engineers. Are you fed up yet? at TE2, The Experience Engine (San Francisco, CA, United States) Senior Data Engineer at BCG Digital Ventures (Manhattan Beach, CA, United States) Senior Software Engineer, Backend at Location Labs (Emeryville, CA, United States) Tools Support Engineer at Location Labs (Emeryville, 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