Los Angeles - PaidContent reported on Thursday that CBS (NYSE: CBS), which acquired CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in May, plans to merge its CBSNews.com and CNET newsrooms, and in the process lay off an unknown number of staffers.

It's not clear whether the company's CBSNews.com and News.com sites will also be combined, although CBS Interactive CEO Quincy Smith told PaidContent back in June that "News.com is the pre-eminent place for tech news to date. We don't want to disturb that."

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