Daniel Koh is a RECATOOLS editorial persona focused on fintech, digital payments, banking technology, market infrastructure, and digital-economy regulation. Articles under this byline explain how financial technology and policy changes affect consumers, businesses, and regional markets.

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Macro photograph of a black Hynix DRAM chip package soldered to a blue circuit board
Business

A South Korean Law Could Block SK Hynix's Planned Memory Plant in Japan

Miyagi wants the plant and Tokyo is offering subsidies to get it. The approval that decides the question is a statutory one in Seoul, over technology designated as nationally core.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
A wireless router with three antennas, the hardware category the Huawei and HP Wi-Fi patent licence covers
Business

Huawei and HP Ended a Lawsuit, and Announced a Partnership

The Wi-Fi 7 cross-licence settles a case Huawei filed at the Unified Patent Court in August 2025. Reporting says HP pays a balancing fee, which is what happens when cross-licensed portfolios are unequal.

29 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A rocket lifting off from a coastal launch pad, engines lit through the exhaust plume.
Business

SpaceX's 125,000 Louisiana Acres Are About Regulatory Headroom

SpaceX will build a $100bn launch complex on 125,000 acres of former Exxon land on Louisiana's southern coast, with operations from 2030. The acreage is less about room for pads than about distance from objectors.

27 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A wide view across Seoul's apartment blocks and office towers, with forested mountains behind.
Business

South Korea's 800 Trillion Won Budget Is Not a Budget Yet

The cabinet approves it on 1 September and the Assembly has yet to pass it. The dollar figure reported ranges across $46bn purely on the exchange rate, and the revenue funding it is the most cyclical in industry.

25 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
A close-up of a humanoid robot's face moulded in pale plastic, with dark eyes and a fine seam at the mouth.
Business

XPeng's Robot Unit Raised $900m at $6.3bn Before Selling Anything

IDG led, with Tencent and Alibaba strategic. The company calls it China's largest single-round private embodied-AI financing — a claim carrying four qualifiers, and the real bet is on control software, not hardware.

25 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
A macro photograph of a green printed circuit board showing surface-mount components and silkscreen reference labels.
Business

A Judge Vacated Seven Espionage Counts Against a Google Engineer. Seven Theft Counts Stand.

The element prosecutors could not prove was that Linwei Ding knew his theft would benefit the Chinese state. Nationality and destination did not establish it, and the surviving charge is the narrower one.

24 Aug 2026 · 7 min read
Illustrative: the Lower Manhattan skyline seen across the water on a clear day.
Business

New York Passed The Bay Area On Tech Jobs, Partly Because The Bay Area Shrank

394,300 against 375,730 in CBRE's annual count, the first reversal in the survey's history. It measures where technology workers are employed, which is not the same as where the direction gets set.

24 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
A plain white takeaway coffee cup on a cafe counter, illustrating a report on ZUS Coffee exploring a Malaysian listing.
Business

ZUS Coffee Beat Starbucks In Malaysia. Now It Has To Price What It Is.

An IPO exploring at least RM1bn at a valuation near RM4bn would test whether an app-first coffee chain is read as a retailer or as something with a technology multiple. It reached 1,000 outlets before deciding.

22 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Two hourglasses on a pale surface, illustrating a report on why memory manufacturers pay for a long view of demand.
Business

Micron Raised a US$250 Million Fund to See Its Own Demand Three Years Out

A memory manufacturer investing across the AI stack is the smallest version of a pattern that now includes Nvidia's US$500 billion financing platforms and its equity stakes in customers. For a company whose fabs produce three years after the decision, demand visibility is the point.

18 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
Four colleagues talking across a boardroom table with laptops, illustrating a report on IBM's new OpenAI consulting practice.
Business

IBM Will Sell OpenAI's Models Through Its Consultants

A company with its own model family is putting a rival's frontier models into the platform its consultants use with clients, and training tens of thousands of them to deploy it. The scarce input in enterprise AI is not the model.

17 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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