Online tech publisher CNET is shutting down its print magazine after less than five years

Troy Wolverton | The CBS-owned tech-news publisher informed employees of the closure in a company meeting last month.

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Bankrupt ad-tech firm Sizmek is spinning off its contextual targeting business into a standalone company headed by a former exec

Lauren Johnson | Ad-tech veteran and former Pointroll CEO Mario Diez will lead the new company.

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Dun & Bradstreet agreed to acquire a data platform to get a bigger piece of marketing budgets and keep ahead of startups and marketing clouds

Lauren Johnson | Dun & Bradstreet president Stephen C. Daffron said it plans to use the acquisition to address marketers' growing need to analyze data in real-time.

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Morgan Stanley says Disney will steal Netflix's streaming throne in the US within 5 years — but will trail globally by a wide margin

Ashley Rodriguez | Morgan Stanley estimates that Disney's streaming services — Hulu, ESPN Plus, and Disney Plus — will have more US subscribers than Netflix by 2024.

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'Alexa, what ETF should I buy?' Asset managers like BlackRock and Invesco are testing out voice assistants — but some are sounding the alarm on privacy concerns

Meghan Morris | Some of the larger managers, including BlackRock and Invesco, are laying the foundations for voice programs, which they could roll out next year.

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Investors just launched the first VC dedicated exclusively to psychedelics, which they call the 'next wave' after the cannabis boom

Jeremy Berke,Erin Brodwin | We talked to the founder of the first VC dedicated exclusively to psychedelics. Based in Canada, Field Trip Ventures aims to open clinics in the US.

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The booming private market has some hedge funds spreading into private equity's domain. Now a tug-of-war has broken out over talent.

Bradley Saacks | Hedge funds need people who know the private markets, while private equity's popularity has pulled public market investors from hedge funds.

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CERN, the famous scientific lab where the web was created, is so unhappy with Microsoft's 10x price hikes that it's ditching all Microsoft software

Julie Bort | The scientific research organization, best known for the Large Hadron Collider, is fed up with Microsoft, it announced in a blog post.

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Beware a 'Trump recession': JPMorgan unloads on the president's role in erasing a full year of market progress — and lays out a scenario that could save the day

Joe Ciolli | The JPMorgan quant guru Marko Kolanovic says Donald Trump's trade war derailed his progress from tax cuts. Here's why he's still surprisingly bullish.

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