Cadillac's new vSport line is meant as an answer to Audi's S packages and BMW's M Sport models, and is less about pure muscle than the V-Series line. Cadillac launched the model line this month with the 2014 XTS vSport, the first car to get General Motors' new 410-hp, twin turbo V-6 engine. The vSport version of the next-generation CTS will get the same engine when the redesigned sedan rolls out next month.

With the 2013 U.S. Open Grand Slam underway, IBM and the U.S. Tennis Assn. have extended their relationship, which dates back to 1992, through 2016, with an eye on growing and expanding tech platforms and fan enhancements, which includes building Web and mobile destinations that have accelerated in total global visits from 8 million in 1997 to 325 million in 2012.

A human rights group on Friday criticized a Dunkin' Donuts advertising campaign running in Thailand that features a model whose face is painted black to sell "Charcoal Donut," a chocolate flavored item. The model is wearing blackface makeup and bright pink lipstick. Phil Robertson, deputy director of the Asia division of Human Rights Watch, said it's "rather incredible that an international company like Dunkin' Donuts" would run such an ad."