U.S. Commute Times, Big Cities and Low Skilled Workers & Yandex

The Great Divide in How Americans Commute to Work

We are cleaving into two nations—one where daily life revolves around the car, and the other where the car is receding in favor of walking, biking, and transit.

Big Cities No Longer Deliver for Low-Skilled Workers

Why are cities no longer lands of opportunity for middle-skilled workers and those without college degrees?

Google is the most popular search engine in most of the world except Russia — here’s why

Yandex maintains its dominance due to its superior Russian language search capabilities.

New Index Shows Urban Growth Is Inextricably Tied To Future Mobility Innovation

How well cities can cope with this coming mobility revolution will be critical to their ability to grow and attract businesses and talent.

Why Facebook’s ’10-Year Challenge’ Is A Disaster For Big Data Surveillance

The naivety of the last ten years will never be repeated, our innocence can’t be recaptured. So look again at those photos from 2009, from a time before the people pictured realized they were the ultimate product.