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.
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…
Intel’s reception of a preliminary $8.5 billion award under the U.S. CHIPS and Science Act in March 2024 marked one of the most significant…
Samsung’s decision to build its most advanced U.S. semiconductor fab in Taylor, Texas, is one of the defining FDI stories of the 2020s. The…
TSMC’s Arizona Fab 1, officially known as the Phoenix fab complex, represents one of the most consequential foreign direct investments in U.S. history. The…
Google is turning the Thompson Center into a 1.2 million square foot regional hub, the biggest tech real estate bet in Chicago history, while…
The 2022 Chicago corporate exodus saw Boeing, Caterpillar, and Citadel move their headquarters out of Illinois in seven weeks. What it meant, and what…
In 2021 Chicago minted around a dozen unicorns and celebrated Unicorn Day: project44, ShipBob, M1 Finance, Cameo, ActiveCampaign and more. The boom, and the…
Sailfish 4 ships with AppSupport for Linux Platforms and a public sector pitch built around European tech sovereignty. The consumer market is gone. The…
VillageMD's 2020 Walgreens megadeal, and a pandemic that moved venture capital to Zoom, reset the odds for Chicago startups and set up the 2021…
Tempus Labs became Chicago's standout unicorn in 2018, opening a historic run. How Eric Lefkofsky's precision-medicine company built on the Groupon and Grubhub era.
France continues to attract foreign direct investment and corporate tech activity as its ecosystem matures and policy support becomes more visible.
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