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.

Australia jumped five places to 15th in OECD rankings for employment of mature age workers.

Two young Australian innovators are ready to take their ventures to the next level after sharing in $20,000 in seed funding from PwC during a live pitching event held by the Foundation for Young Australians.

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.

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.

With record low margins and stubborn expense to income ratios, the major banks must quickly seize the opportunity of the technology revolution or fail to keep pace with expectations.

Australia is facing a growth problem, and the best way to spark growth is to create a bedrock for innovation and support businesses to disrupt themselves and take risks.

PwC has been appointed as a Skills Service Organisation by the Federal Department of Education and Training to work with Industry Reference Committees to develop modern and relevant training packages.

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.

An enhanced Singapore-Australia free trade agreement (SAFTA) represents the biggest step-forward in over a decade in our economic relationship with Singapore.

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.

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 technical documentation for chips in the semiconductor industry is often thousands of pages long. Keeping those documents updated with every revision is a massive lift, as is generating the manuals and tutorials for engineers who then implement those chips in their own products. And to make matters even more complicated, very few products only […]

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Atlassian first showed off Rovo six months ago. Rovo is what the company calls its “AI teammate” that combines smarter search and chat-based AI tools with agents that can help users automate some of their workflows in tools like Jira and Confluence. At its Team ’24 Europe event in Barcelona, the company has now announced […]

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Atlassian recently announced its plans to combine its Jira Software tools for developers and Jira Work Management tool for business teams into a single product. Jira was originally for developers and the teams that directly support them, but over time, it also became popular with business teams. That’s a trend Atlassian quickly capitalized on with […]

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Since it was founded in 2015, Cato Networks has evangelized the concept of a Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) platform that combines many of the features of software-defined networking, modern network security tools, and endpoint protection into a single service backed by a global private network. The promise here is that instead of managing dozens […]

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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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Creating engaging videos isn’t only about the visuals. So much of the appeal of good video content is about the audio, but finding (or maybe even creating) the right audio effects can be a time-consuming process. At its annual MAX conference, Adobe is showing off Project Super Sonic, an experimental prototype demo that shows how […]

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Alert management for developers and ops teams may seem like a solved problem. Notifying an on-call engineer isn’t exactly difficult anymore, after all. But the real question has become when to alert the right person and how to help them when a service goes down, for example. Many are turning to AI to solve some […]

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Stacklok, the open source software supply chain company founded by Kubernetes co-creator Craig McLuckie and Sigstore creator Luke Hinds, is donating Minder, one of its key projects, to the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF). Minder helps development teams set up a system of proactive checks and policies to minimize supply chain risks by enforcing best […]

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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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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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Best-selling author Margaret Atwood isn’t worried about the indefatigable rise of generative AI — telling Reuters that she’s too old to be concerned about its impact on the arts. Her remarks follow a petition calling for an end to the unlicensed use of creative works to train AI models that’s now amassed more than 31,000 […]

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The European Union will spend €1.4 billion (about $1.5 billion) next year to bolster deep tech research and support scale-ups in strategic areas like AI, low-carbon technologies, agritech and biotech, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The budget for the 2025 Work Program of the European Innovation Council (EIC), part of the bloc’s flagship Horizon Europe […]

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Solar energy is booming, which is good news for Glint Solar. The Norwegian software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup has built a platform that’s helping energy giants and large solar developers such as E.ON, Recurrent Energy, and Statkraft cut the time it takes to plan and pre-design solar installations to accelerate the transition to renewables. Glint’s software pulls in […]

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Tozero, a Munich-based startup that recovers valuable raw materials from recycled lithium-ion batteries, is gearing up to scale. The startup just closed an oversubscribed €11 million seed round (around $11.7M) to step up production by building its first industrial deployment (A.K.A first-of-a-kind or FOAK) plant. Currently, Tozero’s pilot plant processes nine tonnes of lithium-ion battery […]

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

Here's how you can build productivity by setting realistic expectations, over-delivering when possible and embracing a positive mindset.

Digital PR is often expensive and misleading, with agencies charging high fees for services that offer little value, fake media placements and no guaranteed results.

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

LG's full-color screen is a first for the industry, but competitors like Samsung are not too far behind.

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. World News Live Today November 13, 2024: Stranded Sunita Williams rubbishes deteriorating health ‘rumours’ amid severe weight loss claims  Hindustan Times
2. Stranded Sunita Williams rubbishes deteriorating health ‘rumours’ amid severe weight loss claims  Hindustan Times
3. NASA Astronaut Sunita Williams debunks health rumors: 'I weigh the same' from the ISS  Moneycontrol
4. Inside Sunita Williams' extended mission: What she’s doing in space  India Today
5. Why is astronaut Sunita Williams losing weight at ISS? NASA worried, here's what the agency is planning to  The Economic Times

1. Solar Surge Ends Binar Space Program’s Satellite Mission Ahead of Schedule  PUNE.NEWS
2. Solar Cycle 25 puts satellites at risk, curtailing missions | Tap to know more | Inshorts  Inshorts
3. Fiery Fate: Hyperactive Sun sends Australian satellites crashing back to Earth  Moneycontrol
4. Something Happening on the Sun’: Solar surge burns up 3 satellites as scientists warn of escalating risks  Business Today
5. The solar cycle, a heartbeat of stellar energy  European Space Agency

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

Kartik Aaryan, Vidya Balan, Triptii Dimri, Madhuri Dixit and others arrive in style at Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3  TOI EtimesView Full coverage on Google News

1. Khushi Kapoor reacts to her rumoured relationship with Vedang Raina: 'It’s best to keep your personal lif  TOI Etimes
2. Khushi Kapoor opens up about her dating life amid romance rumours with Vedang Raina: ‘I understand the curiosity…’  Hindustan Times
3. Khushi Kapoor Confirms Dating Vedang Raina By Wearing Bracelet With His Name? See Here  News18
4. Khushi Kapoor’s bracelet spells out rumoured boyfriend Vedang Raina’s name, netizens ask, ‘Official finally?’  The Indian Express
5. Khushi Kapoor on public scrutiny of her dating life: Let work be the priority  India Today

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. 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. Oppo Find X8, Oppo Find X8 Pro India Launch Date Announced: What We Can Expect  News18
2. OPPO’s Find X8 Series Pushes Smartphone Photography | OPPO India  OPPO
3. Oppo Find X8 Pro vs Vivo X200 Pro: 13 differences to help you choose your next flagship  The Financial Express
4. OPPO Find X8 Series And ColorOS 15 India Launch Date Confirmed; Check Expected Specs  Zee News
5. Oppo Find X8 unboxing - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.com

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. NTPC Green Energy IPO: Price band set at ₹102-108 per share; check issue details, key dates, more | Stock Market News  Mint
2. NTPC Green fixes Rs 102-108 price band for Rs 10,000 crore IPO. Check GMP, other details  The Economic Times
3. NTPC Green Energy fixes dates, price band for ₹10,000 crore IPO — More details here  CNBCTV18
4. NTPC Green Sets Price Band For Indias Third Largest IPO This Year  NDTV Profit
5. NTPC Green Energy IPO: Check price band, shareholders quota, latest GMP & more  Business Today

1. Retail inflation surges to a 14-month high of 6.2% in October  The Times of India
2. Retail inflation jumps to 14-month high of 6.21 per cent, breaches RBI tolerance level  Telegraph India
3. Rising food prices are likely to push back beginning of rate cutting cycle  The Indian Express
4. Consumer inflation at 14-month high of 6.2%  Hindustan Times
5. Rate cut unlikely even in February, inflation to dip January onwards: SBI research  The Economic Times