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Tesla's flagship Model S sedan outsold the Mercedes S-Class and BMW 7-Series last year in the US.

Mercedes plots Tesla attack with $1b US electric push

Daimler plans to spend $US1 billion ($1.26 billion) to start production of Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles at its Alabama factory, setting the world's largest luxury-car maker up to battle with battery-car specialist Tesla on its home turf.

Apple chief executive Tim Cook.: The last thing he wants is to end up dependent for memory chips on his archrival Samsung.

'That's enough': Cook is plotting Apple's biggest deal

It's been a busy week for Apple. While its CEO Tim Cook showed off the 10th anniversary iPhone in California, he had his lieutenants work half a world away on what may become the company's largest deal ever.

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The 'tech-lash' against Google and Facebook is upon us

The world's biggest technology companies all had to overcome ridiculous, seemingly insurmountable odds to get where they are today. Having scaled the summits of capitalism, they are now facing a different, and arguably even more unpredictable, kind of challenge.  

Tesla boss Elon Musk's space race ambitions could help change the world by making internet streaming more immediate.

Elon Musk sees `production hell' ahead for Tesla

"A year from now, if he hits the goal and is selling half-a-million cars to overwhelmingly satisfied customers, even the skeptics might dub him Iron Man." is how one analyst puts it.

Bill Gates is the latest billionaire to invest in the freight start-up.

World's two richest men back Uber rival

As Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos jockey for the designation of world's wealthiest man, the two billionaires are united behind at least one local venture - an Uber for trucking.