After three years in development, the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) has released a set of standards that are game-changing for shareholders and the profession, says PwC.

PwC Australia is delighted to announce a partnership with The Australian National Committee for UN Women in a joint effort to promote gender equality.

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 Federal Government's decision to be a part of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is a bold move which encourages long term investment in a growing region which will benefit Australia.

PwC Chief Executive Luke Sayers today announced the members of an external advisory board charged with moving the firm towards greater diversity and inclusion among its people.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The number of detected cyber security incidents in Australia was the highest worldwide in the last 12 months with an increase of 109 percent, compared to a 38.5 percent increase globally.

PwC Australia is pleased to announce it was selected by The Workplace Gender Equality Agency WGEA as one of 90 organisations in Australia as an Employer of Choice in 2015.

In Aussie Mine - Going for Gold, we find that companies holding quality gold assets were the shining lights of 2015 with revenues up by 11% and share of mid-tier revenues growing by 5%.

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.

Australian CEOs are less confident about their companies' growth prospects than a year ago, and less optimistic about growth in the global economy, according to a PwC report released today.

2016 could be the high-water mark for Australian power and renewables deals following a strong year for transactions in 2015, according to PwC's energy, utilities and mining leader Mark Coughlin.

Providing every primary school in the country with access to at least one specialist science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) teacher could be possible if teachers are incentivised to acquire STEM specialisations and collaboration between schools is prioritised.

The overwhelming majority of global banks and traditional financial services firms believe part of their business is at risk of being lost to standalone Fintech challengers, according to a PwC report released today.

Australian oil and gas companies will need to think bigger and embrace customers in Asia, rapidly evolve their business models, and become much more responsive to emerging trends, if they are to thrive in a challenging new global marketplace.

PwC and NAB have teamed up to help self-employed and microbusiness customers operating in an emerging more flexible economy to manage their GST requirements.

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.

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.

Google today announced that it is making Meet, its video meeting tool for businesses that directly competes with the likes of Zoom, available for free to everyone. Until now, you could participate in a Meet call without being a paying user, but you needed a paid G Suite account to start calls. You won’t be […]

Puppet, the Portland-based infrastructure automation company, today announced that it has named former Cloud Foundry Foundation executive director Abby Kearns as its new CTO. Current Puppet CTO Deepak Giridharagopal will remain in his role and focus on R&D and leading new projects, while Kearns will focus on expanding the company’s product portfolio and communicating with […]

Microsoft has now opened registration for the virtual edition of its online-only Build 2020 developer conference, which will take place from May 19 to 20. Typically, the event draws more than 6,000 developers, but because of the coronavirus pandemic, that’s obviously not an option. In contrast to Google, which completely scrapped its I/O developer conference […]

AWS today announced the launch of the Elemental Link, a small hardware device that makes it easy to connect a live video source to the AWS Elemental Media Live service for broadcast-grade live video processing in the cloud. The $995 Link, which weighs in at less than a pound, is meant to allow Media Live […]

Orca Security, an Israeli cloud security firm that focuses on giving enterprises better visibility into their multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure and GCP, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series A round led by GGV Capital. YL Ventures and Silicon Valley CISO Investments also participated in this round. Together with its seed […]

Under different circumstances, GitHub would be hosting its Satellite conference in Paris this week. Like so many other events, GitHub decided to switch Satellite to a virtual event, but that isn’t stopping the Microsoft-owned company from announcing quite a bit of news this week. The highlight of GitHub’s announcement is surely the launch of GitHub […]

Hub Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that developed a software and hardware platform for cryptographic operations, today announced that it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by AXA Ventures. Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd also participated in this round. Like most companies at the Series A stage, the company plans to use the investment […]

Locatee, a Swiss startup that uses existing sensors and IT infrastructures to provide employers and commercial real estate owners with detailed data about how their spaces are utilized, today announced that it has raised a $4 million Series A funding round led by San Francisco-based FYRFLY Venture Partners and Zurich-based Tomahawk VC. “We started the […]

In the April 2020 update of its Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), released on April 7, and before a recently announced agreement by oil producing countries to limit production, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that U.S. crude oil production will average 11.8 million barrels per day (b/d) in 2020, a 4% decline from the 2019 production levels. Crude oil production will average 11.0 million b/d in 2021, a 6% decline from 2020 (Figure 1). If realized, the STEO 2020 production decline would mark the first annual decrease since 2016. The majority of the forecasted production decline occurs between the first and fourth quarters of 2020, dropping from 12.7 million b/d to 11 million b/d (13%) and remaining around that level through 2021. The forecast did not incorporate the April 12 joint announcement by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and several other non-OPEC countries to reduce crude oil production. These production reductions may significantly affect global balances and could provide upward price pressure that would affect U.S. crude oil drilling and production. ...

Peanut, an app that began as a tool for finding new mom friends, has evolved into a social network now used by 1.6 million women to discuss a range of topics, from pregnancy and parenthood to marriage and menopause, and everything in between. On the heels of significant growth in online networking fueled by the […]

Facebook has a new connectivity app called Discover to help those who can’t afford to get online access information on the web. The service, available through mobile web and Android app, allows users to visit any website in text format (no video, images, audio and other elements that eat up large amounts of data) and […]

IRL, the recently pivoted calendar app that aggregates live virtual events, has today launched a web version of the platform. The company, which has $11 million in funding from Goodwater Capital, Founders Fund and Floodgate, started as a social planning app that helped folks find each other in the real world, based on interest and […]

A video about the coronavirus featuring a well-known vaccine conspiracist is spreading like wildfire on social media this week, even as platforms talk tough about misinformation in the midst of the pandemic. In the professionally-produced video, a solemn interviewer named Mikki Willis interviews Judy Mikovits, a figure best known for her anti-vaccine activism in recent […]

Saar Gur is adept at identifying the next big consumer trends earlier than most: The San Francisco-based general partner at CRV has led investments into leading consumer internet companies like Niantic, DoorDash, Bird, Dropbox, Patreon, Kapwing and ClassPass. His own experience stuck at home during the COVID-19 pandemic spurred his interest in three new investment […]

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. Facebook redesign is finally rolling out for everyone | BGR India  BGR India
2. Dark mode on Facebook starts rolling out with brand new desktop site  Livemint
3. Facebook for desktop gets dark mode for all: Here's how to get it  India TV News
4. Facebook’s redesigned website now live: Here’s how to get  The Newsopedia
5. Facebook starts rolling out redesigned desktop site to all: Here’s what’s new  Hindustan Times
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1. Saudi, US companies also eyeing stakes in Reliances Jio Platforms  Business Standard
2. Mukesh Ambani is a man on a mission and even a pandemic or lockdown can’t stop him  ThePrint
3. General Atlantic Is Said to Be In Talks for Reliance Jio Stake  BloombergQuint
4. Saudi, US firms eye stakes in Reliance Jio  Hindustan Times
5. Mukesh Ambani in no mood to rest; trying to get more investors for Jio, talks on with rich Saudi wealth fund  The Financial Express
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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. 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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After months of rumors, Verizon finally sold off Tumblr for a reported $3 million — a fraction of what Yahoo paid for the once mighty blogging service back in 2013. The media conglomerate (which also owns TechCrunch) was clearly never quite sure what to do with the property after gobbling it up as part of […]

Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance’s Douyin, but over the past eight years, it has cultivated a reputation for being one of the country’s most trustworthy social media platforms. Originally launched as a question-and-answer site similar to Quora, Zhihu has grown to be a central hub for […]

The proliferation of data breaches based on leaked passwords, and the rising tide of regulation that puts a hard stop on just how much user information can be collected, stored and used by companies have laid bare the holes in simple password and memorable-information-based verification systems. Today a startup called Persona, which has built a […]

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to consumer tastes can be. On the same day that the Canadian Tim Hortons restaurant chain is dropping Beyond Meat products from its menus, the company […]