Where companies plant operations across borders: which markets are courting which industries, and the economic logic (plus the politics) behind a factory or HQ landing in one country over another. This one is my actual day job, so expect a practitioner’s read, not a headline summary.
JASM's Kumamoto fab reported a $29 million net profit in Q1 2026, rebounding from prior losses. This news, announced amidst production halts due to…
Orange and Morrison announced a €3 billion joint venture to build data centers in France, targeting 400 megawatts of capacity. Despite its sovereign branding,…
Over 75 data center projects worth $130 billion were blocked in Q1 2026 alone, matching all of 2025 in three months. The bottleneck is…
Commodore is back in the phone business, and the actual story is the operating system. The Callback 8020 runs Sailfish OS, made in Helsinki…
The EU AI Act highlights a disconnect between regulatory ambitions and Europe's hardware capabilities, creating compliance burdens for startups while relying on US cloud…
From the lakefront to Arlington Heights to a billion-dollar Indiana offer, here is the full Chicago Bears stadium saga, taxes and fiscal schemes included,…
mHUB gives Chicago something no pure-software city has: a hardware incubator with prototyping labs and a manufacturing supply chain, positioned perfectly for the physical…
The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is turning a shuttered South Side steel site into North America's largest quantum hub. The plan, the money,…
Chicago's data center market hit 1.9% vacancy with $11 billion in new builds, as hyperscaler spillover from Northern Virginia turns the Third Coast into…
Chicago's fintech ecosystem was born on the trading floor, and the derivatives culture that created CME, Morningstar, and the prop trading firms is the…
Chicago's flagship tech incubator 1871 leaves the Merchandise Mart after 13 years, ending an era but not the network that produced Tempus, a dozen…
McDonald's runs one of the most used consumer AI platforms on the planet from its Chicago HQ, and the city should claim it as…
Outcome Health, once a celebrated Chicago healthtech startup, was later exposed for fraud, inflating revenue by $1 billion through false advertising sales. Convicted founders…
Jolla Russia is a closed chapter. The two-year separation from Open Mobile Platform finally completed in June 2024, costing Jolla its largest revenue source…
The Illinois EV corridor's revival centers on saving Belvidere's plant, idled in 2023, through UAW negotiations and federal funding. This complex struggle contrasts with…