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Lawsuit alleges Microsoft raided Guatemala office with police, guns

Microsoft Corp. raided a Guatemala insurance firm with local police officers to "extort" $70,000 in licensing fees from the company, a new lawsuit alleges.

Seattle startup Tred offers a way to avoid those car sales reps

Years ago, Grant Feek spent his high school summer vacations as a porter, parking and delivering BMWs for a Seattle dealership. That was before he moved to the East Coast to get an MBA at Harvard, and then went to New York for a career in the finance industry.

Tesla voluntarily recalls hundreds of Model S cars

Luxury electric carmaker Tesla is voluntarily recalling the Model S cars produced between May 10 and June 8, saying one of the car's seat-mounting brackets is weaker than intended. It's estimated the recall will affect about 20 percent of the 1,300 cars produced in that one-month period.

Wal-Mart stumbles in online race with Amazon

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has stumbled in its efforts to keep up in the online sales battle with retailing giant Amazon.com Inc. and now realizes it can't clone Amazon's huge and efficient logistics network.

New stats: We're watching more video on our phones than ever before

I you've recently watched a YouTube video on your smartphone or a Netflix movie on your tablet, you're not alone. Mobile video consumption is at all-time high.

Strikes hit Amazon's operations in Germany

Amazon.com Inc. is running into problems in Germany, with four strikes in the last month at two of Amazon's eight German distribution centers.

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