House prices have skyrocketed in the EU over the past decade, far outpacing the rate of growth for rentals. A new Eurostat report, released on 8 April, found that between 2010 and Q4 of 2021, house prices went up by 42 percent across the bloc, while re…
After more than a decade of uninterrupted growth, Netflix suffered its first subscriber drop in the first three months of 2022. The world’s largest video streaming service ended the quarter with 221.64 million paid memberships, down 200,000 from the pr…
According to CB Insights, there were 1,068 unicorn companies in the world as of March 30, 2022. In 2021 alone, 519 of these privately held startups valued at $1 billion or more were “born”. The global unicorn herd passed the 1,000-mark at the beginning…
After having had a taste of remote working through the pandemic, employees are now yearning for even greater flexibility when it comes to their working hours. According to a report by Adobe, 51 percent of enterprise employees would like to have complet…
After a federal court struck down the nationwide mask mandate on airports, planes and other forms of public transportation, it remains unclear how the decision will impact flight traffic in the United States. While some passengers may have been discour…
The number of newly created Twitter accounts almost tripled on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, according to a new report by the University of Indiana’s Observatory of Social Media (oSoMe) and the Polytechnic University of Milan. The whitepaper, titled …
Around one in ten of those surveyed in the United States as part of the Statista Global Consumer Survey said they had paid for a gym membership in the 12 months prior to the survey. How many have actually used the service regularly within the last year…
With France gearing up for its next presidential election on April 10, what are the voting trends in this final stretch of the campaign? While there have been plenty of contemporary examples of polls not being predictions, but rather a snapshot of opin…
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States saw a peak unemployment rate of about 15 percent in the two-month recession taking place between February and April of 2020 according to data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While t…
According to the Forbes Billionaires List of 2022, most of the world’s richest people are at home in the United States. The country counted 867 billionaires per the list’s last release Tuesday. This is several more than the next country on the list, Ch…