BEIJING, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Tax authorities could do more to realise the full potential of new technology to reduce the tax compliance burdens on taxpayers, according to the 2019 edition of the annual Paying Taxes report, produced by PwC and The World Bank Group. The report, released today in Beijing, has found that [...]
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Business leaders across Asia Pacific remain confident that their companies revenues will grow over the next 12 months despite increasing trade frictions. In its latest survey of 1189 business leaders across the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies, PwC found that 35% were very confident [...]
LONDON, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — While the majority of businesses recognise which capabilities are important for their future success, many are failing to take the actions needed today to build or even introduce them into their organisations. These actions include using data analytics to make workforce decisions and creating a compelling work experience for [...]
LONDON, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Family businesses should seek to maximise the competitive advantage that comes from their strong values-led culture, according to the Global Family Business Survey 2018 released today by PwC. This year’s survey saw family business leaders globally reporting robust health, with levels of growth at their highest level since 2007. [...]
SAN JOSE, Calif. , Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, Cisco announced the launch of its new IT Operations Readiness Index revealing how data is transforming the way businesses operate their IT. The Index surveyed more than 1,500 senior IT leaders from across the globe to understand where organizations are on their IT operations transformation [...]
NEW YORK, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Annual worldwide corporate R&D spending increased by 11% in 2018, totaling US$782bn in annual investment, based on an annual analysis of the 1000 largest global public companies by R&D spend conducted by PwC’s Strategy&. The 14th edition of PwC’s Strategy& Global Innovation 1000 Study shows how innovation investment is [...]
GERMANTOWN, Md., Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Neuralstem, Inc. (Nasdaq:CUR), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel treatments for nervous system diseases, announced the publication of a manuscript in Scientific Reports showing that transplantation of NSI-532.IGF1, a proprietary human neural stem cell line developed by Neuralstem (US patent no 9,750,769), mitigates disease pathology and improves [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) - While being a leader has many benefits, the role also comes with tremendous pressure. What are the pros and cons of being a leader? How can organisations support their leaders to cope with stress? Being a leader has many benefits – there is more control in the job, more [...]
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:INO) today announced that new data from the company’s recently completed Phase 1b study with INO-5150 demonstrated a slowing of Prostate-Specific Antigen Doubling Time (PSADT) in men with prostate cancer. Eighty six percent (86%) of patients remained progression-free at Week 72 of the study. [...]
HONG KONG, CHINA, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Whether it is our name, hometown or personal characteristic, our similarities could alter our reactions to service failures. “What a coincidence!” This is a familiar line in our lives. We have all experienced that mysterious sensation – hopefully pleasant – triggered by an unexpected connection with a [...]