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Yesterday China’s market regulator and Xiaomi announced an over-the-air recall of 116,887 SU7 Standard sedans, every one built before August 30, to fix a…
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…
The Snapdragon Manchester United partnership deepens for 2025/26: the Microsoft Copilot+ PC logo returns to the back of United shirts in WSL matches and…
Qualcomm’s Q2 FY2025 results extend the record-breaking run: $10.8 billion in revenue, up 15% year-over-year. The AI smartphone super-cycle — driven by Galaxy AI,…
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…
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Qualcomm Technologies announced a powerful three-way collaboration: Snapdragon, Manchester United, and (RED) are joining forces to drive…
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…
Qualcomm and Manchester United have confirmed the extension of their Snapdragon principal shirt partnership through 2029, following a first season that broke records and…
Meta's Llama 3.2 is a multimodal model that runs locally on mobile devices or in your own data center with no API dependency. The…
Motorola Solutions has been building tech from Chicago for 96 years, and its $10 billion public safety and enterprise AI business is the city's…
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…