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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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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Analysis: King generated massive but eroding profits, and like most mobile game makers, couldn't launch another megahit — Candy, Crushed — What would you do if you found a gold mine? — Would you keep it to yourself and sell as much gold as you could dig out, for as long as you could?| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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ZDNet, PCWorld, Windows Help, The Register, InfoWorld, The Unshut, The Verge, Forbes, Neowin, Gizmodo and Tech Times. Tweets: @on_ms_licensing
| Alex Weprin / Politico: |
By making Star Trek exclusive to All Access, CBS shows it is serious about competing with Netflix, Amazon, others with its own streaming service — CBS is serious about taking on Netflix — There's no question about it anymore: CBS is serious in its effort to take on Netflix, Amazon … | 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.
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Open Whisper Systems, Wired, 9to5Google, Android Police, Digital Trends, Help Net Security, Network World, SlashGear, Android Central, Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo and The Next Web. Tweets: @guardianproject
| Daniel Geiger / Crain's New York Business: |
Sources: Google abandons plans for retail store in New York City after spending $6M in renovations, wants to sublease the space for $2.25M/year — Google abandons plan to open first-ever retail store in New York City but not before spending $6 million to renovate this SoHo space [Photos]
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| AnandTech: |
iPhone 6s and 6s Plus Review: A9 SoC is the best SoC in any phone today, 3D Touch is a user experience breakthrough, best phones on the market for video capture — The Apple iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Review — To be perfectly honest, this past year has been remarkably boring in the mobile segment.
Tweets: @tomdale
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
IBM buys cloud brokerage software developer Gravitant — IBM plans to integrate Gravitant's software capabilities into the IBM Global Technology Services unit, in an effort to boost its hybrid cloud and enterprise services. — IBM on Tuesday said it has acquired Gravitant, an Austin …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Official Plex app for Apple TV now available, offers local streaming, playlists, channels, more — The official Plex app for Apple TV is now available in the App Store. Plex is a media server for video, TV shows, music and photos. The app is fully featured, with quick access to search, playlists and more from the top bar.
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