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Akarshan Kumar / The Twitter Blog:

Twitter and Vine rebrand favorites as likes, replace star icon with heart — Hearts on Twitter — We hope you like what you see on Twitter and Vine today: hearts! — We are changing our star icon for favorites to a heart and we'll be calling them likes.

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Mat Honan / BuzzFeed:

In replacing favorites with hearts, Twitter alters use cases familiar to power users in hopes of appealing to a broader audience

More: TechCrunch

Bálint Miklós / Gmail Blog:

Gmail launches Smart Reply, suggests up to three responses to emails for quick replies — Computer, respond to this email: Introducing Smart Reply in Inbox by Gmail — Posted by Bálint Miklós, Software Engineer — With the holidays approaching and emails coming in at a furious pace, we can all use a little help.

Wilson Rothman / Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Kills Unlimited OneDrive Storage, Downgrades Paid and Free Options — At a time when many companies are expanding cloud storage options, Microsoft Corp. is shrinking its offerings. — Microsoft is ending unlimited OneDrive storage plans, citing user abuse, the company said in a blog post late Monday.

iFixit:

The Microsoft Surface Book earns a 1 out of 10 repairability score with RAM and processor soldered to motherboard and heavily glued components — Microsoft Surface Book Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.

More: Engadget, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Inquirer, ExtremeTech, The Verge, TIME, WinBeta, ZDNet, Neowin and Mashable

Tweets: @abdophoto and @ifixit

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Chromecast Can Now Stream Live Television With Added Sling TV Support — Sling TV, Dish's streaming live TV service that offers a variety of cable TV channels, including ESPN, is now available on Google's Chromecast. The forthcoming addition of Sling TV support was first announced in September …

More: Sling Blog, Business Wire, PC Magazine, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Android Police, CNET, Gigaom, Multichannel News, FierceOnlineVideo News and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Firefox 42 arrives with tracking protection for private browsing mode, tab audio indicators, and background link opening on Android — Firefox 42 arrives with tracking protection, tab audio indicators, and background link opening on Android — Mozilla today launched Firefox 42 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

More: The Mozilla Blog, Laptop Mag, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Digital Reader, Washington Post, Computerworld, Consumerist, Mozilla Hacks, The Verge, Lifehacker and Ubergizmo

Financial Times:

Activision Blizzard to buy King Digital Entertainment, the company behind the Candy Crush games, for $5.9B — Activision to buy Candy Crush's King for $5.9bn — Activision Blizzard has agreed to acquire King Digital Entertainment, the London-based group behind the hugely popular Candy …

Peter Kafka / Re/code:

Analysis: King generated massive but eroding profits, and like most mobile game makers, couldn't launch another megahit

More: ABC News, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Here & Now, GeekWire, Tech Trader Daily and PCWorld

Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:

Pinterest rolls out buyable Pins on Android and launches dedicated shopping section — Pinterest launches dedicated shopping section — Pinterest started adding a buy button to pins back in June, and today those buyable pins are becoming even easier to shop.

More: Pinterest Blog, Android Police, Gigaom, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Engadget and Consumerist

Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code:

Amazon, Apple, and Google unite behind advocacy group Financial Innovation Now to promote tech-friendly changes to the financial services sector — Amazon, Apple and Google Unite Behind Financial Innovation Coalition — Three of the technology industry's fiercest rivals — Amazon …

More: Financial Innovation Now, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and MacNN

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

OEMs to stop selling PCs with Windows 7 by October 31, 2016 — Within a year, OEMs will only be able to ship PCs with Windows 10. — In February last year, Microsoft said that it would give a one year warning of when systems with Windows 7 preinstalled would no longer be available from OEMs.

More: ZDNet, CNET, Fone Arena, FierceCIO News, CIO.com, Computerworld, The Register, Forbes and The Unshut. Tweets: @on_ms_licensing

Jay Greene / The Seattle Times:

Amazon Books, the digital retailer's first brick-and-mortar store, to open in University Village Seattle on Tuesday with 5K-6K titles — Amazon opens first brick-and-mortar bookstore — at U Village — Two decades after it started selling books online, Amazon opens a shopping center storefront with books for sale on actual shelves.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Intel Puts $22M In 10 Startups, With A Stake In FreedomPop To Launch A Rival To Google's Project Fi — Intel Capital, the venture arm of the tech giant, today announced $22 million in new investments across 10 startups. The news was delivered at the company's annual global summit …

More: VentureBeat, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Intel Newsroom, UploadVR and PE Hub Blog

Ken Yeung / VentureBeat:

Open Whisper Systems releases Signal encrypted messaging app for Android to replace TextSecure and RedPhone — Open Whisper Systems, a provider of security-related technologies and apps for mobile devices, has started rolling out an Android version of its private messaging and calling iOS app Signal.

More: Open Whisper Systems, Wired, Inquirer, PC Magazine, 9to5Google, Android Police, Digital Trends, Network World and The Next Web. Tweets: @guardianproject

Lucian Constantin / Computerworld:

Google researchers examine Galaxy S6 Edge and show OEMs add risky code as they find 11 vulnerabilities introduced by Samsung — Google researchers poke holes in Galaxy S6 Edge, show OEMs add risky code — Google's security researchers hunted for bugs in Samsung's Galaxy S6 Edge phone …

More: Project Zero, Android Authority and SecurityWeek

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