The biggest advertising trade group says half of US shoppers are buying direct-to-consumer products, and most big marketers are unprepared

Lucia Moses | Almost a third of people who buy DTC brands actively create, share, or repost content about them, per to a new Interactive Advertising Bureau report.

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Microsoft bows to the backlash and will not start charging its sales partners to use its software

Julie Bort | Microsoft caused an uproar among the resellers who sell its wares and then canceled its plans to charge them new fees.

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Here's the pitch deck that's helping this 28-year-old first-time entrepreneur raise over $2 million in seed funding to make professional coaching more accessible

Nick Bastone | AceUp is a platform for professional coaching, connecting employees seeking professional development with coaches that have real-world experience.

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2 top leaders at Google's $4.5 billion venture arm want to transform how new drugs get made to boost their entire portfolio

Emma Court,Lydia Ramsey | Making new drugs can take a decade and cost a fortune. David Schenkein and Krishna Yeshwant at GV want to change that.

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The top strategist for $2.5 trillion investment giant State Street breaks down a growing threat to the market that's lurking in the shadows, even as stocks soar

Marley Jay | Michael Arone, chief investment strategist for $2.5 trillion State Street, is keeping a watchful eye on the growing private-equity and debt markets.

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Morgan Stanley's investment chief says beware these 3 'summer surprises' set to crush stocks

Christopher Competiello | Mike Wilson, the chief investment officer and chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, expects a down market in Q3 and sees recession looming.

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JPMORGAN: These 4 drivers are all you need if you want to master the market heading into 2020

Akin Oyedele | JPMorgan says double-digit gains are unlikely to be repeated in the second half of the year, and it has ideas for what will dictate what happens next.

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The 32 star venture capital investors in Europe every tech founder needs to know

Shona Ghosh,Charlie Wood | Business Insider has listed some of the continent's star VCs, who are well-respected by founders and peers and won big from smart early bets.

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CBD and hemp startups are using creative loopholes to skirt Facebook's ad ban. Here's how they're doing it.

Jeremy Berke | We talked to CBD startups about how they're working around Facebook's ban on advertising cannabis products.

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