Governments must apply renewed focus to achieve fiscal balance and sustainably reduce the cost of delivery.

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

The key to Japan's economic future lies in growing it's engagement with the countries on its doorstep, according to a PwC report released today.

The needs of all Australians - affordable housing, a secure job, a decent education for their children, a good health system and a comfortable retirement - will not be met if we don't achieve major tax reform.

The global mining industry's fight for value and free cash flow has descended into a brawl, after 2014 saw the world's 40 largest miners ramp up production, slash capital spending, and rein in costs.

The Abbott Government's tough negotiations in an effort to seal an Indian Free Trade Agreement (FTA) next year should see 70 per cent of Australia's two-way trade covered by a free trade agreement.

Unique granular modelling of over 2,000 locations across Australia uncover how fragmented and concentrated our economy is.

PwC today announced their new partners from 1 July 2015. A total of 64 individuals will be admitted to the partnership across all of the firm's businesses and most of its geographies.

PwC Australia welcomes Murray Deakin as a Partner in PwC Australia’s Tax & Legal Practice to drive further growth in their legal team.

A new PwC survey has found that 70 per cent of major Australian companies are planning to enter new joint ventures or strategic alliances to drive growth from the Chinese market.

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

The economic impact of obesity will reach $87.7 billion and affect one-third of Australians by 2025 based on current trends and without further intervention.

Major tax reform is the most sensible lever to pull to combat a projected $48 billion in lost revenue in our new low growth economy.

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.

If the company tax rate was reduced from 30 to 25 per cent over the next five years gross domestic product (GDP) would grow $291 billion and income tax revenues would generate $4 billion up to the year 2025, PwC modelling released today shows.

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.

A standalone plebiscite with a compulsory vote on marriage equality could cost the Australian economy $525 million according to modelling released by PwC Australia today.

The emerging global market for business services using drone technology is valued at over US$127 billion with the drone revolution disrupting industries ranging from agriculture to filmmaking.

Australian organisations are experiencing a significantly higher rate of economic crime than the rest of the globe according to a PwC survey released today which finds 52 percent experienced economic crime in the last 24 months compared to the global average of 36 percent.

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.

Arne Schepker, the CEO of the popular Berlin-based language learning platform Babbel, is stepping down, and the company’s co-founder and former CEO Markus Witte is stepping back in to lead the company “into a new phase while searching for Arne’s successor with patience,” the company said. This new phase, unsurprisingly, will involve AI. Witte will not […]

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Early is a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses generative AI to generate unit tests, helping programmers catch potential bugs early in the development cycle. The company, which launched in August, today announced that it has raised a $5 million seed funding round led by Zeev Ventures, with participation from Dynamic Loop Capital. In its current […]

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AI code assistant company Tabnine is launching a code review agent today that aims to help developers stick to their organization’s best practices and standards. It allows organizations to codify these rules either by providing the agent with documentation or by pointing it at a set of “golden code repos.” The agent will passively review […]

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At its Universe conference, GitHub today announced a number of major new products, including the Spark project for writing applications entirely with AI, as well as multi-model support for its Copilot service. But Copilot itself is also getting quite a few updates. With this release, Microsoft-owned GitHub is bringing Copilot to Apple’s Xcode environment for […]

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GitHub today announced that it will now allow developers to switch between a number of large language models when they use Copilot Chat, its code-centric ChatGPT-like service. Until now, Copilot Chat was powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4. Going forward, developers can choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1-preview, and […]

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About a year and a half ago, quantum control startup Quantum Machines and Nvidia announced a deep partnership that would bring together Nvidia’s DGX Quantum computing platform and Quantum Machine’s advanced quantum control hardware. We didn’t hear much about the results of this partnership for a while, but it’s now starting to bear fruit and […]

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Symbiotic Security, which is announcing a $3 million seed round today, watches over developers as they code and points out potential security issues in real time. Other companies do this, but Symbiotic also emphasizes the next step: teaching developers to avoid these bugs in the first place. Ideally, this means developers will fix security bugs […]

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Dapr, the Microsoft-incubated open source runtime for helping developers build secure and resilient distributed applications, has graduated from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF) pool of incubating projects to become a top-level project at the same level of projects like Kubernetes, Prometheus, Istio, and Vitess. To graduate to this level, a project has to be […]

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When it comes to privacy nightmares, Pinterest is unlikely to be the first social app that springs to mind. But the visual discovery engine’s use of tracking ads is the target of the latest complaint from European privacy rights nonprofit noyb, which accuses it of breaching the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing […]

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A new data bill from the U.K. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) aims to revive several measures that failed to pass under the prior government, while rowing back on some controversial post-Brexit reforms proposed by conservative ministers. The government reckons the “Data (Use and Access) Bill” (DUA) stands to boost the U.K. economy […]

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Fixing the climate crisis is a vast, world-sized puzzle. But one particularly large piece of this ginormous conundrum is construction and real estate — which collectively amount for around 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Enter Munich-based data startup Emidat, which has built a software platform for automating the generation of validated Environmental Product Declaration […]

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The European Union has expanded its scrutiny of online marketplaces by opening a formal proceeding on Chinese low-cost e-commerce platform, Temu, under the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Commission announced Thursday. Enforcers of the online governance framework will now dial up their oversight of Temu. The bloc’s suspicions are focused on concerns about the sale […]

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On Wednesday, the European Union opened an investigation of U.S. manufacturer Corning over possible anti-competitive practices. Corning may not be a name that’s super familiar to the average tech consumer, but you are almost certainly within touching distance of its products, as it’s a leading supplier of speciality toughened glass for mobile devices, including Apple’s […]

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Qwant, France’s privacy-focused search engine, and Ecosia, a Berlin-based not-for-profit search engine that uses ad revenue to fund tree planting and other climate-focused initiatives, are joining forces on a joint venture to develop their own European search index. The pair hopes this move will help drive innovation in their respective search engines — including and […]

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Apple’s pile of regulatory woes in the European Union has ticked up again: The iPhone maker is being accused of unlawfully discriminating against consumers by applying restrictions on how several of its media services can be accessed around the bloc. Consumer protection authorities in three EU Member States have been investigating the geoblocking measures (access […]

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Luggage storage as a vector for piling into convenience-based revenue opportunities in the business of global travel continues to put a spring in San Francisco-based Bounce‘s step. The startup has just tucked $19 million in Series B funding into its suitcase, with a plan to keep rolling revenue that’s grown 20x since its $12M Series […]

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Adam Cohen, founder and CEO of Stic, shares his roadmap for success for the car-based ad tech startup.

New CEO Damola Adamolekun is making changes, including adding new (and old) items to the menu.

1. Delhi reports record high chikungunya, malaria cases in 5 years  DNA India
2. Delhi Reports 5-Year Record High In Chikungunya, Malaria Cases  NDTV
3. Delhi sees 472 more dengue cases, total count at 4,533  Hindustan Times
4. 4,533 cases, 3 deaths due to Dengue reported in Delhi in 2024  ETHealthWorld
5. Delhi witnesses surge in Dengue cases: 472 cases in last week, 3 deaths this year so far  India TV News

1. World Pneumonia Day Marks Launch of SAANS Campaign to Combat Childhood Pneumonia  Nicobar Times
2. World Pneumonia Day: 7 natural ways to keep your lungs healthy  Health shots
3. Breath by breath: The fight against pneumonia’s toll  Observer Research Foundation
4. Govt to equip dist hosps to cut child pneumonia deaths  The Times of India
5. World Pneumonia Day: 9 foods to fight pneumonia  Firstpost

1. Ricky Ponting Fires Back At Gautam Gambhir After India Coach's Press Conference Remarks  NDTV Sports
2. A fired-up Virat Kohli is Australia's worry after Ricky Ponting's 'bad move'  The Times of India
3. I was not taking a dig at Kohli, Gambhir is a prickly character: Ponting | Border-Gavaskar Trophy to begin on November 22 | Inshorts  Inshorts
4. ‘Hunger’ key for coach Gautam Gambhir, not form as India prepares for Australia Test series  Telegraph India
5. ‘That’s a bad move, Ricky. What are you doing?': Ponting's Virat Kohli jibe questioned amid 'spicy' ball-tampering claim  Hindustan Times

1. Producer Ratan Jain confirms talks with Shah Rukh Khan for Baazigar sequel: 'It will definitely be made'  TOI Etimes
2. Shah Rukh Khan in talks to star in ‘Baazigar’ sequel  The Hindu
3. Producer Ratan Jain finally breaks silence on Baazigar 2 with Shah Rukh Khan, says 'it will definately be made  India TV News
4. Shah Rukh Khan to star in Baazigar 2? Producer Ratan Jain says sequel will ‘definitely be made’  PINKVILLA
5. Shah Rukh Khan To Reprise His Iconic Role In Baazigar 2? Producer Ratan Jain Breaks Silence  Times Now

1. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 box office collection Day 12: Kartik Aaryan starrer still trailing behind 'Singham Agai  TOI Etimes
2. Singham Again team was being ‘unfair’, says Bhushan Kumar: ‘It got unpleasant, but they assured me…’  The Indian Express
3. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 vs Singham Again box office collection day 12: Kartik Aaryan-led horror comedy, Ajay Devgn's film in neck-and-neck fight ahead of Kanguva release  Business Today
4. Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 box office collection: Kartik Aaryan film overtakes Singham Again, storms past 300 crore in 10 days  Hindustan Times
5. Hindi video: Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3 Ami Je Tomar 3.0 full video goes viral; who won dance dare, Madhuri Dixit or Vidya Balan?  Mint

1. Amazon Sale 2024 Deals on Best Laptop Under 40000: Explore Top Brands at Discounted Rate  HerZindagi English
2. Amazon Laptop days: Get over 50% off on best selling laptops from top brands like Acer, HP. Sale ends today!  Mint
3. Best-selling gaming laptops on Amazon: Starting at 44990, get up to 12000 off on exchange, 12-month no-cost EMI  Hindustan Times
4. Amazon Sale: Bumper Discount Of 26% Off On Best Gaming Laptop Under 1 Lakh  Jagran English
5. Get Best Branded Laptops Under Rs 50,000 on Amazon  Times Bull

1. Garena Free Fire MAX redeem codes for November 13: Win free in-game rewards daily  The Times of India
2. Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes Today, November 13: Win Free Gifts, Skins And Much More  Jagran English
3. Garena Free Fire MAX November 13 redeem codes: All about Booyah Top-Up event  HT Tech
4. Free Fire Mystery Shop: Rewards, duration, and more  Sportskeeda
5. Garena Free Fire MAX redeem codes, November 12, 2024 edition: Steps to unlock exclusive rewards, level up your character  The Financial Express

1. Google rolls out new features in Chrome for iPhone users  Moneycontrol
2. 4 new Chrome improvements for iOS  The Keyword
3. Stop Using Chrome On Your iPhone, Warns Apple—Millions Of Users Must Now Decide  Forbes
4. Chrome 131 for iOS adding new Google Drive, Maps integrations  9to5Google
5. Chrome for iOS now lets you add text to Google Lens visual searches  Engadget

1. Mercedes Benz AMG C63 S E Performance Sedan Launched In India At Rs. 1.95 Crore  CarToq.com
2. Mercedes-AMG C 63 S E Performance Launched At Rs 1.95 Crore  NDTV
3. Top News of Nov 12: Market crash; Air India-Vistara merger; Nykaa Q2 results; CISF first-ever all-women battalion; more  Mint
4. Mercedes-AMG C63 SE Performance launched with world's most powerful 4-cylinder engine!  The Times of India
5. Mercedes AMG C63S E Performance Launch Price Rs 1.95 Cr - 680bhp, 1020Nm, 0-100 3.4s  RushLane

1. SENSEX down 50 pts, NIFTY50 hovers around 23,850; KNR Constructions up 13%, Bosch rises 3% after Q2 results  Upstox
2. Stock Market LIVE Updates: Nifty below 23,750, Sensex down 400 pts; all sectors in the green  Moneycontrol
3. Stock market: Why Sensex, Nifty are down today; what's spooking share investors?  Business Today
4. Sensex Today | Stock Market LIVE Updates: Sensex tumbles over 400 pts, Nifty below 23,800; auto stocks bleed  The Economic Times
5. Stock market today: Trade setup for Nifty 50 to Q2 results today; five stocks to buy or sell on Wednesday — Nov 13  Mint

1. "Combining Indian Hospitality With Swiss Quality": CEO On New Noida Airport  NDTV
2. First Flight To Land At Noida International Airport In 72 Hours, Full Ops Expected By April 2025  News18
3. Noida International Airport: Preparations for test flights done, operations to begin from THIS date | Details  India TV News
4. Noida or Delhi airport? What’s better for Delhi-NCR residents – Here’s how New Delhi-Mumbai Expressway will shape the choices  The Financial Express
5. Who should opt for Noida or Delhi Airport? How will it cut short travel time? Here’s a breakdown  The Indian Express