LIMA, Peru, Nov. 17, 2016 (Korea Bizwire) — Over half the businesses in the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation’s (APEC) 21 economies (53%) surveyed by PwC this year plan to increase their investments over the next 12 months. This is despite reporting fragile confidence in prospects for revenue growth over the next year and disappointment with pace of progress on [...]
JAKARTA, Indonesia, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Economies around the world continue to make progress in simplifying and reducing the burden of tax compliance on businesses, says the latest edition of Paying Taxes 2017, a report by The World Bank Group and PwC. Released today, the report finds that the Total Tax Rate decreased by [...]
NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Established software companies in mature markets now face true competition, as well as partnership opportunities, in markets across the globe. But how do they survey the landscape for threats and opportunities? An infographic accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/3aec6a46-7a49-4b3f-97c6-bbaafae4211c PwC’s new ranking, Emerging Markets Top 30 Software [...]
TEL-AVIV, Israel, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (NASDAQ:RDHL) (TASE:RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development and commercialization of late clinical-stage, proprietary, orally-administered, small molecule drugs for gastrointestinal and inflammatory diseases and cancer, today announced that it has concluded a positive Type B Meeting with the U.S. [...]
GAITHERSBURG, Md., Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ:BSFT), a global unified communication software as a service (UCaaS) leader, today announced it has surpassed 15 million cloud unified communications (UC) lines deployed globally – an industry leading milestone that is three times greater than the next nearest competitor. BroadSoft has also solidified its position [...]
LONDON, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — By 2020, companies will have shifted the majority of their R&D spending away from product-based offerings to software and service offerings, according to the 2016 Global Innovation 1000 Study from Strategy&, PwC’s strategy consulting business. The need to stay competitive is the top reason why companies cited a shift [...]
REDWOOD CITY, CA, Oct 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Nominum ® announced today a new report published by 451 Research, which reveals that a growing percentage of internet subscribers no longer prefer receiving account information and important alerts from their communications service provider (CSP) via email. Instead, a majority prefer emerging methods, such as in-browser messages, [...]
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and EXTON, Pa., Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Idera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:IDRA), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing Toll-like receptor and RNA therapeutics for patients with cancer and rare diseases, is reporting initial clinical data from its ongoing Phase 1/2 clinical trial of intra-tumoral IMO-2125, a Toll-like receptor (TLR) 9 agonist. In this arm [...]
LONDON, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — London claims pole position for the second time in a row in a comprehensive benchmarking study of 30 leading business centres globally, boding well for its ability to withstand post–Brexit competition on a number of fronts. Singapore comes second in PwC’s Cities of Opportunity Index; Toronto third, with Paris [...]
NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — With cloud computing rapidly reshaping the software industry, PwC has ranked the 25 Fastest Growing Cloud Companies to help understand what drives success when vendors move to the cloud. Released as part of PwC’s Global 100 Software Leaders research report, this first-time cloud-specific ranking suggests that no one [...]