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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. Â