Activision Blizzard is buying King Digital Entertainment -- the maker of mobile gaming sensation Candy Cruch Saga -- for $5.9 billion. “The deal gives the combined group more than 500m monthly active users across almost 200 countries and is expected to boost Activision's adjusted earnings by about 30 per cent next year,” Financial Times reports.  

Google’s Inbox app for Gmail will now give suggested responses whenever users receive an email. “That means that, instead of typing out entire sentences, it’ll offer three suggestions it thinks you’re most likely to use based on the email you received,” 9To5Google writes. The new feature uses the company’s deep neural network tech.  

Chinese smartphone maker Huawei just has hired former Apple creative director Abigail Brody as its new chief user experience designer. As CNBC, Brody will reside in Huawei’s device and consumer division, where she will oversee the interface design on all products.  

 The Verge considers all that is wrong with our consumer-rating culture. “The rating systems used by … companies have turned customers into unwitting and sometimes unwittingly ruthless middle managers,” it writes. “For the workers, already in the precarious position of contract labor, making every customer a boss is a terrifying prospect.”