Editors' pick: Originally published July 15.

Pokemon Go is taking over the world - literally. The app launched last week and has absolutely crushed expectations. It's vaulted to the top of Apple's (AAPL) - Get Report App Store, is more popular than Twitter (TWTR) - Get Report and Tinder and has sent shares of Nintendo (NTDOY) higher by nearly 100% in a little more than a week.

Now the company's aim has shifted towards global domination. So far, Pokemon Go has only been available in the U.S., Germany, Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Apparently the game will soon be launched in Japan, along with a number of other countries and territories as well.

In all, some 200 markets are on the map for the company to go after.

Because of other countries' regulations and rules, going after the big fish could be more difficult. For instance, using Alphabet's (GOOGL) - Get Report mapping features has its issues when it comes to South Korea, as the government has limited the tech company in what it can display due to security concerns involving North Korea. China, another large gaming country, also has regulations that make it tough for an augmented-reality gaming app to just hop in and get moving.

The company is working on solutions for a few of these hangups. In all, the developers could end up with many new markets in the not-too-distant future, making it an even more lucrative venture.

The over-the-counter traded shares of Nintendo closed at $33.21 Friday, higher by 8.7%. Shares of the Tokyo-listed Nintendo closed higher by 9.8%.

Ready for some weekend Flixtape? Yeah, I know. No one knows what that is yet. Well, some of you probably do. Anyway, Netflix (NFLX) - Get Report announced that it will launch Flixtape, a mixtape version of Netflix content.

How it works: When going to the Flixtape home page, they are given two choices: either create your own Flixtape or choose from ones that are already made. If you opt to make your own, you choose several titles (movies or shows), put them in order and voila, now you have a mixtape version of video content.

I did this, just to see what the heck it was. I would suggest not doing it with TV shows, unless you don't like to do an unhealthy, yet quick binge of two, three, four or more episodes at a time. 

This seems perfect for what some might consider a lazy day, or as the kids say, "Netflix and chill." Of course, you can just browse for shows and movies too. It's not that hard.

But it's one more way that Netflix makes its platform that much more engaging for its users.

Shares of Netflix closed at $98.39 Friday, up 0.4%.

On Friday, the Federal Communications Commission announced that there will be 62 bidders looking for assets in the upcoming spectrum auction. Slated for August 16, bidders will begin submitting prices for the available spectrum.

As you may or may not remember, the FCC previously announced a reverse auction, where it planned to first sell the desired spectrum to wireless carriers, and then buy that spectrum from TV broadcasters.

 Reportedly, the price for this round of spectrum totals $86.4 billion for 126 MHz. A pricey sum no doubt.

Some of the bidders include AT&T (T) - Get Report , Verizon (VZ) - Get Report and Dish Networks (DISH) - Get Report , among many others. If the price proves to be too rich, the FCC may have to "hold additional auction rounds," according to Reuters.

AT&T closed $42.89 Friday, up 0.3%.

This article is commentary by an independent contributor. At the time of publication, the author held no positions in the stocks mentioned.