According to a new Pew survey, 15% of all U.S. adults have used a ride-hailing app.
Black and Latino Americans are only slightly more likely to use ride-hailing services than white Americans, according to a new Pew survey about the sharing economy published on Thursday.
Few Americans use the on-demand services that young, wealthy, college-educated urbanites can’t live without.
If you’re a resident of greater Silicon Valley, the sharing/gig/on-demand economy might seem like old news. But a new Pew survey published on Thursday found that most Americans aren’t familiar with these terms—and don’t use services such as Airbnb, Uber, and Instacart.
A new Pew study found that 11% of Americans have used home-sharing services, but usage rates differ across racial groups.
White people are more likely to have used a home-sharing service like Airbnb than black people, according to a new Pew study.
Nearly half of professional women with children leave their jobs, but it’s not for lack of ambition, it’s for lack of alternatives.
New companies are cropping up to help a growing niche: Women who leave full-time jobs to care for family or pursue better work-life balance. Organizations such as Paragon Law, The Mom Project, and The Second Shift are connecting highly skilled professionals, mostly women, with short-term or project-based work in law, public relations, finance, and marketing.
The video-texting app wasn’t developed for deaf people, but thanks to Glide community manager Sarah Snow, it now caters to them.
The Problem: For someone whose first language is ASL, texting feels foreign. Deaf people tend to prefer services like Skype or FaceTime, but they require people to be tuned in at the same time.
PRX’s Jake Shapiro is launching a new company that aims to bridge the gap between podcasts and old-school radio.
Don’t let all the buzz fool you: Podcasting is still very much in its infancy. As of early last year, only 17% of Americans listened to podcasts regularly, according to Pew. Jake Shapiro and Kerri Hoffman, both veterans of Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and podcasting pioneers, are hoping to change that with a unique partnership.
Tapping the talents of Dominic Cooper, Joseph Gilgun, Ruth Negga, Sam Catlin, and Garth Ennis was a good start. So was keeping it funny.
People have been trying to make Preacher work on television or the movies since the first issues were published in 1995. The list of people who attempted to bring the profane, disturbing, thrilling, and hilarious series to screens reads like a timeline of filmmakers who were hot between the mid-90s and the late 00s. It includes folks like Kevin Smith, Tank Girl director Rachel Talalay, Daredevil director Mark Steven Johnson, The Whole Ten Yards director Howard Deutch, and Sam Mendes. But by 2009, the project was dead and buried—after HBO declared it “too dark and too violent and too controversial,” according to Johnson.
Google is releasing a new ecosystem to put virtual reality into the hands of everyone.
The Fitwel rating, from the CDC, measures things like access to public transportation and how easy it is for employees to take the stairs—and then suggests how to make your office healthier.
Let’s say two people want to lose weight. One has a job near a bike path and bike parking in his office—which has an inviting light-filled staircase that makes it fun to climb two flights of stairs—and his employer provides healthy snacks. Another works at an office park off the highway, doesn’t move all day, and has the choice between Doritos or Lay’s in the vending machine when he wants a quick snack. Who do you think will have an easier time losing pounds?
The designer, who had a meteoric rise from T-shirt maker to the runways of Paris, wants to show others the ropes.
Virgil Abloh, Kanye West’s creative director and the visionary behind three-year-old Milan-based clothing line Off-White, was the only American nominated for the prestigious LVMH Prize for young fashion designers last year. Known for his hand-painted leather jackets and patched and pleated denim, Abloh had his first-ever Paris Fashion Week show in September and is selling products at retailers such as London department store Selfridges and Paris trendsetter Colette.
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