Three things that crossed our desk this week.
31.91 or 34.78? Reading Singapore’s Q3 tariff correctly
Energy Intelligence
SP Group’s revision of 30 June 2026 produced four numbers that have been quoted interchangeably ever since, and all four are correct: households rose 17.0% (4.64 cents per kWh) to 31.91 cents before GST; 34.78 cents is that same rate with GST; the overall increase including non-households averaged 17.5%. None of them is a commercial rate. Budget against the wrong one and the business case will not survive the first invoice.
No ASEAN trademark office has ruled on a handle
Fragment Economy
WhatsApp opened username registration in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia on 20 July, and no platform running a username market requires trademark verification before a handle is claimed or sold. A registered mark buys no priority. Enforcement afterwards reduces to bidding against the holder, a platform-administered abuse report with no external appeal, or litigation against someone who may be anonymous.
You reserved the handle. WhatsApp owns it.
Fragment Economy
Claiming a business username grants a revocable, non-assignable licence — not ownership. It cannot be pledged, sublicensed, or sold with a division, which is where it bites: in a carve-out, the customer-facing identity of the unit being sold cannot legally follow it to the buyer.
So what: Tariff resets and namespace land-grabs share one failure mode — firms discover the exposure only after the window closes. Technicity’s intelligence systems are built to surface these shifts before they price in: see the live systems.