High-priced, handmade boutique sports cars typically make their debut where the well-heeled and the media gather. Pagani took a different approach this time around. The Italian supercar manufacturer unveiled its new nearly $3.5 million Huayra Roadster BC in CSR2, the mobile game produced by Zynga . The physical car will eventually get its moment. Pagani […]

The worlds of virtual and augmented reality have yet to land on the applications and hardware to truly spark mass-market, consumer interest in the space, but in the meantime, a startup building mixed reality services for business users has raised a round of funding, underscoring the opportunity in enterprise. Spatial, which has developed a “holographic” […]

November 2019 could mark when Nigeria (arguably) became Africa’s unofficial capital for fintech investment and digital finance startups. The month saw $360 million invested in Nigerian-focused payment ventures. That is equivalent to roughly one-third of all the startup VC raised for the entire continent in 2018, according to Partech stats. A notable trend-within-the-trend is that […]

This morning Finix, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup selling payments tech to other businesses, announced that it has raised a $35 million Series B. Sequoia led the round, which also saw participation from new investors Activant Capital and Inspired Capital. Finix did not disclose a new valuation as part of its round, and declined to share […]

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released updated projections of future U.S. energy production and use in its Annual Energy Outlook 2020 (AEO2020) today.

Apple announces a new MacBook Pro, tech stocks take a dip and Uber Eats shuts down in seven markets. Here’s your Daily Crunch for May 4, 2020. 1. The 13-inch MacBook Pro gets Apple’s much-improved keyboard Following in the footsteps of the MacBook Air and 16-inch Pro, Apple’s 13-inch Pro model is finally getting the […]

For members of Australia's start up community, Adelaide is fast growing the reputation of a national entrepreneurial hub.

The sale of New South Wales' and Queensland's utility assets will be among the most eagerly anticipated power deals globally in 2015, according to a PwC report released today.

On Friday 28 February at 4.30am Sydney time, PwC will host its second global forum to students around the world.

Australia dropped six places to 15th position - the largest drop out of the 27 OECD countries measured.

Greater Sydney generates 23% of the Nation's GDP and will be a city of 8 million, up from 4 million, in the next 40 years.

While technology and innovation are transforming our economy, they are also the solution to our workforce and growth challenge.

Driving workforce participation, support for small businesses and much needed investment in infrastructure make this a pragmatic budget.

The pace and scale of disruption in the power and utilities sector is happening faster than expected.

Australian entertainment and media market is forecast to grow to $43.4 billion by 2019, a compound annual growth rate of 4.2 percent.

At PwC we have put significant effort into generating a national conversation about Australia's tax system and the need to improve it.

Cyber risk, political interference, and macro-economic volatility rank among the top sources of anxiety for Australian insurers, according to a joint PwC and Centre for Financial Innovation (CSFI) report released today.

The eyesight of more than 32,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would be saved if the Government invested just $227 million over 10 years, a new report has found.

Regulation, compliance, and price pressure are slowing access to potentially life-saving new medicines, and undermining industry confidence in the current listing process.

The PwC network reported total global gross revenues of US$35.4 billion for the fiscal year ended on 30 June 2015.

Violence against women and their children is costing Australia $21.7 billion each year, with Governments carrying more than a third of the cost burden; as shown in the report A high price to pay: the economic case for preventing violence against women.

PwC today announced it was collaborating with a range of Australasian startups and emerging technology companies to deliver a purpose-built cloud platform that brings together some of the leading cloud solutions in the market today, all in one place.

Australia has fallen back to pre-2007 performance on female economic empowerment with one of the biggest annual declines among OECD countries according to PwC's annual Women in Work index.

Australia's next generation of family business leaders is more confident and better prepared for senior roles than two years ago, but is also experiencing more challenges, both inside the firm and in the wider business landscape.

Modest personal tax cuts, tighter superannuation concessions, and a pathway to lower corporate tax rates make this a responsible if not spectacular budget.

PwC has today been announced as the first employer partner for a new Pathways in Technology (P-TECH) style pilot at McCarthy Catholic College, Emu Plains.

PwC Australia has acquired a 15 per cent stake in TOP Education, a Sydney-based private higher education provider, in move that will strengthen the firm's focus on Australia's third largest export - international education.

The world's top 40 mining companies were in a race to the bottom in 2015, with falling market capitalisations and net losses leaving them slower, lower and weaker, according to PwC's Mine 2016 report released today.

A lack of diversity in Australia's media and entertainment workforce in terms of ethnicity, gender, age and thinking is dragging on the industry's growth, according to a PwC report released today.

Backblaze today announced that its B2 Cloud Storage service is now API-compatible with Amazon’s S3 storage service. Backblaze started as an affordable cloud backup service, but over the last few years, the company has also taken its storage expertise and launched the developer-centric B2 Cloud Storage service, which promises to be significantly cheaper than similar […]

1. Astronomers in Hawaii capture high resolution images ..ky imaging’ technique, probe into planet's cloud tops  Firstpost
2. Giant Planet More Astounding Than Before  NEWS9 live
3. Scientists obtain 'lucky' image of Jupiter  BBC News
4. New images of Jupiter captured by astronomers using `lucky technique`  WION
5. Scientists probe Jupiter's violent storms, lightning strikes  EdexLive
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1. Virender Sehwag would've easily crossed 10,000 Test runs had he played for another country: Rashid Latif  India Today
2. Sehwag would’ve had 10k runs if he played for another team; was under Sachin, Dravid’s shadow: Ex-Pak...  Hindustan Times
3. Ex-Pak skipper believes Sehwag couldve achieved more had he played for another country - Republic World  Republic World
4. Sehwag would’ve crossed 10,000 Test runs if he played for another country, says Pakistan’s Latif  Scroll.in
5. Virender Sehwag remained under shadows of other players: Rashid Latif  Jimmys Post
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1. England Cricket Board Teasing Kohli's Unique Dismissal by Rashid Has Riled up Desi Fans  News18
2. The best you’ve ever faced Virat Kohli?: ECB posts video of India captain’s dismissal to Adil Rashid  Hindustan Times
3. Virat Kohli picks his favourite match other than 2011 World Cup final  India Today
4. "The Best Ball You've Ever Faced?": ECB Asks Virat Kohli, Posts Throwback Video  NDTV Sports
5. The home giants: Time we stop scoffing at Indian cricket’s greatest strength  Scroll.in
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1. Salman Khan and Jacqueline Fernandez share the inspiration behind their upcoming track 'Tere Bina' in the  Times of India
2. Iulia On Marriage Rumours With Salman Khan: Spending Life With Someone More Important Than Papers  News18
3. Salman Khan shoots song titled 'Tere Bina' with Jacqueline Fernandez at his Panvel farmhouse; reveals det  Times of India
4. Salman Khan, Jacqueline Fernandez promote new song Tere Bina at his farmhouse: ‘This is our cheapest...  Hindustan Times
5. Tere Bina: Salman Khan And Jacqueline Fernandez Shoot A Music Video At The Actor's Farmhouse  NDTV
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1. Redmi K30 5G Speed Edition with new Snapdragon 768G SoC to launch on May 11th  91mobiles
2. Snapdragon 768G is real, specs leak online - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com
3. Xiaomi may have teased new Snapdragon 768G chip  Android Authority
4. Qualcomm's newest Snapdragon 768G chip will make its debut alongside the Redmi K30 5G Speed Edition on May 11th  Notebookcheck.net
5. Redmi K30 5G Speed Edition With Snapdragon 768G Is Now Official  Gizchina.com
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1. Raghuram Rajan on monetisation debate: 'It's neither a game changer nor a catastrophe'  CNBCTV18
2. India Raises Borrowing Limit by Over 50% to Rs 12 Lakh Crore as Virus Grips Economy  The Wire
3. Need for non-collateralized reverse repo operations: SBI Report  Economic Times
4. View: Why a new 'Bad Bank' when there are 24!  Economic Times
5. Bank credit up 6.74% to Rs 102.69 lakh crore; deposits rise 9.82%  Moneycontrol.com
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1. Ivanka Trump's personal assistant tests positive for coronavirus  Times of India
2. 'It's a Hoax': Twitter Mocks Donald Trump after Ivanka's Assistant Tests Positive for Covid-19  News18
3. Pence spokeswoman, married to top Trump adviser, diagnosed with coronavirus  Hindustan Times
4. Ivanka Trump's Personal Assistant Tests Positive For Coronavirus: Report  NDTV
5. Military aide found infected, Trump to undergo test daily  The Tribune India
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1. 'Walked all night on tracks, left behind as I couldn't keep up' says Aurangabad tragedy survivor; 16...  Firstpost
2. Sorry, we have run out of all words today  Mumbai Mirror
3. NHRC issues notice to Maharashtra govt over deaths of migrant workers in Aurangabad train mishap, seeks det...  Zee News
4. 16 walking home to MP fall asleep on rail tracks, run over in Maharashtra  The Indian Express
5. Tragedy on tracks  The Indian Express
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1. Covid-19: New cases top 3k for 3rd day in a row, total nears 60k-mark  Times of India
2. Coronavirus LIVE Updates: 526 Fresh Cases, 4 Deaths Reported in Tamil Nadu in Last 24 Hours  News18
3. 526 new COVID-19 cases in TN as number of infected in state crosses 6500  The News Minute
4. Coronavirus India Updates Live: India's testing capacity for COVID-19 scaled up to 95,000 per day  Economic Times
5. Coronavirus Outbreak LIVE Updates: Chennai accounts for 279 of 526 new cases reported in Tamil Nadu today; total infections reach 6,535, toll climbs to 44  Firstpost
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As a cell phone plan, Yahoo Mobile seems pretty straightforward — there’s just one pricing tier, where you pay $39.99 per month for unlimited calls, data and mobile hotspot usage. But you may be wondering why Yahoo is getting into the phone business. It makes more sense when you recall that Yahoo is owned by Verizon, […]

Billionaire. Entrepreneur. Investor. Shark. Mark Cuban is one of tech’s best-known entrepreneurs, so we are amped to have him join us for an upcoming Extra Crunch Live, our virtual speaker series that connects the brightest minds in tech directly with our Extra Crunch audience. Starting out as a salesman for one of Dallas’s earliest PC […]

Fresh off of a large round of layoffs, Lyft reported its Q1 results this afternoon. The ride-hailing company disclosed that it generated revenue of $955.7 million in the first three months of 2020, up 23% from its year-ago Q1 revenue result of $776 million. The company’s net loss of $398.1 million was also an improvement […]

Banked, a London-based fintech using open banking to enable account-to-account payments at checkout (and beyond), has raised £2.35 million in further seed funding. The round was led by Force Over Mass, with participation from previous investors Backed and Acrew Capital, along with a number of high-net-worth individuals, such as Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed.com). It […]

Countingup, the business current account that “automates” your accounting, has raised £4 million in self-described bridge funding. Leading the round is ING Ventures, with co-investment from Triple Point, CVentures, and BiG Start Ventures. Founded by Tim Fouracre, who previously founded cloud accounting software Clear Books, and now boasting 20,000 business customers, Countingup’s long term vision […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

Jessica Abo sits down with the CEO and founder of Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative.

Biotech company Moderna said it plans to start phase 2 trials with 600 participants shortly.

Join author and entrepreneur Kim Walsh Phillips as she discusses best practices for driving leads in today's world.

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