Top Stories of the Day // January 18, 2016

WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO | SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite, Unsuccessfully Lands Rocket | Axway Acquires Mobile App Development Platform Appcelerator | Autonomous Robots Are Changing The Way We Build And Move Products Around The World | The Potential Problems And Profits For Netflix In Africa | Wrapify Is A Startup Paying Drivers To Wrap Their Car In Ads | Accel’s Fred Destin On Why Startups Fail And Founders Get Fired |

DAILY MONDAY, JANUARY 18 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Ingrid Lunden WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to... Read More… Emily Calandrelli SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite, Unsuccessfully Lands Rocket Today, SpaceX was hoping to achieve the first ever rocket recovery on a drone ship in the ocean. While the company successfully completed its primary mission of... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Register for RSA® Conference 2016, the world's leading info security event! Join RSA Conference 2016 in San Francisco 2/29–3/4. Learn the latest trends, stay ahead of cyberthreats. Register before 1/29 and save $700 off the on-site price! Learn More… Frederic Lardinois Axway Acquires Mobile App Development Platform Appcelerator Appcelerator has been acquired. The mobile app development platform that counts the likes of T-Mobile, PayPal and GameStop among its customers has been bought... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Jim Rock Autonomous Robots Are Changing The Way We Build And Move Products Around The World Many eyes may be gazing toward the sky in anxious anticipation of new drone delivery systems, but an increasing number of intelligent robot systems is... Read More… Jake Bright The Potential Problems And Profits For Netflix In Africa What happens when the world's largest streaming video service switches on for over a billion people across an area larger than the U.S., China, and India... Read More… Fitz Tepper Wrapify Is A Startup Paying Drivers To Wrap Their Car In Ads Owning a car is expensive. Gas, insurance, and other miscellaneous car-related costs add up, and mean that in some cities it’s already cheaper to replace... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Harry Stebbings Accel’s Fred Destin On Why Startups Fail And Founders Get Fired Fred Destin on the main reasons startups fail and founders get fired; how he analyzes the VC/Founder relationship (with what he calls 'founder intimacy');... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Broadcast Technician, The Weather Network Posted: January 18 Customer Support Technician, Wisconsin Court System Posted: January 15 DevOps Engineer, Docker Posted: January 14 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month 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