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This is no back-fence squabble over who trims the tree. The story laid out in court documents shows how Silicon Valley’s power elite fends off those seeking to force their way into the club and share the wealth.

West Coast seaports fully reopened Monday after two days during which no ships were unloaded amid a labor dispute between dockworkers and their employers.The two sides are negotiating a new contract, and bargaining-table tensions have spilled over to the waterfront, where cargo is moving far slower than normal through ports that handle about one-quarter of the nation's international trade — nearly $1 trillion annually.During the weekend, companies hired workers only to move from dockside yards cargo containers...

Cybercriminals and not just stealing your data, they could steal your life.

The company behind Play-Doh, Monopoly, and Yahtzee is reaping handsome returns from licensing deals with major movie studios. Those contracts made a big difference in Hasbro’s fourth quarter, as sales tied to Paramount’s Transformers franchise and Disney’s Avengers helped the company boost its financial results despite a strengthening dollar, which weakened sales abroad. Sales ticked up 1 percent to $1.3 billion in the period, while profit surged 31 percent to $170 million.

Food-quality scares are hurting McDonald's in China and Japan, where weakness contributed to a key global sales figure falling 1.8 percent.The world's largest hamburger chain said sales dropped 12.6 percent in January at locations open at least 13 months in the division that includes the Asia region. That overshadowed a 0.4 percent rise at U.S. locations and a comparable 0.5 percent increase in Europe.McDonald's shares fell $1.27, or 1.4 percent, to close Monday at $92.72.McDonald's Corp. said its performance in Asia was hurt by customer perception issues in Japan, where a human...

A trove of leaked documents shows that HSBC's Swiss private bank turned a blind eye to illegal activities.

Benchmark Brent crude oil prices remained below $58 a barrel on Tuesday as the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the United States will remain the world's top source of oil supply growth until to 2020, defying expectations of a more dramatic slowdown in shale output growth.

Thanks to an epic collapse in the ruble, price growth has hit crisis levels in Russia: Inflation reached 15 percent in January. Even worse, there's little respite in sight. Inflation will average 13 percent in 2015, according to the median forecast of economists surveyed by Bloomberg.

After years of growth driven by the worst recession of modern times, the massive cost of the federal food stamp program for lower income people declined last year as a share of the economy and is likely to continue...