Eva Chin writes for RECATOOLS on business and commerce in Southeast Asia: the commercial decisions small businesses actually face, and the markets and regulation around them. She also covers Chinese naming and cultural practice, education and qualifications across the region, and the arithmetic of a tropical home. Coverage of cultural practice is educational — it explains what a tradition holds and where it came from, and does not make predictive claims.

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Business

Oracle Cut 21,000 Jobs and Bans AI-Generated Code From OpenJDK

Oracle's headcount fell by 21,000 in a year and its chief executive calls AI-assisted engineering superhuman. OpenJDK, which Oracle stewards, bans model-generated contributions.

2 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The FTC Says Amazon Ran a First-Price Ad Auction But Called It Second-Price

In a second-price auction, bidding your true value is optimal and cannot hurt you. In a first-price auction it is the worst thing you can do. The complaint says advertisers were told the first and given the second.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

Nvidia Licenses NVLink So Rivals' Chips Run on Its Fabric

Licensing an interconnect to your competitors is not a revenue line. It means a rack of somebody else's accelerators still runs on your fabric, and often your switches.

1 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

A Dongguan Court Froze $300m of Nexperia. It Is Not a Seizure.

Asset preservation pending litigation exists in most legal systems and decides nothing about the merits. What is unusual is the situation that produced it, not the order.

1 Sep 2026 · 7 min read
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Business

A Google Office in Islamabad Is Not a Pakistani IT Export

IT exports are domestic firms invoicing foreign clients. A foreign company registering locally sits on the other side of that ledger, whatever the target it is announced alongside.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

The Unimicron Raid Is a Taiwanese Criminal Case, Not a US Trade One

The phrase attached to this is origin laundering, which implies US trade enforcement. The charges are forged documents and false product marking, under Taiwan's Criminal Code, brought by Taoyuan prosecutors.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Berlin Will Not Pay. The Data Left the Network Two Weeks Earlier.

Refusing to pay is right, and it is being reported as though it resolved the incident. The exfiltration finished on 12 August; everything since has been about consequences.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Chinese Hyperscaler Spending Is Doubling and Falling Further Behind

Chinese hyperscaler capex is more than doubling, which is the headline. Moody's says the absolute capacity gap widens anyway, because six times a bigger number grows faster in dollars than a doubling of a smaller one.

31 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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Business

Caterpillar's Fastest-Growing AI Business Is Selling Generators to Data Centres

Two decades of autonomous mining is the story being told. A 72 per cent jump in generator sales is the number in the accounts, and it is about selling power to the build-out, not deploying AI.

31 Aug 2026 · 8 min read
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Business

Alibaba Cloud Opened in Brazil, and the Real Question Is Whose Law Reaches It

The launch pitch is local infrastructure for data governance. Residency answers where the servers are, and not which government can compel the provider that runs them.

30 Aug 2026 · 6 min read
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