The transit-deserts study found service lacking in areas with high rates of poverty on the south and southwest edges of Cook County, as well as in sections of some middle-income and affluent suburbs north and northwest of Chicago. Community leaders on …

NEW YORK (The Deal) — Alibaba Group Holding's $120 million investment in Kabam underscores the value of video games in e-commerce and other sectors. Kabam had $360 million in 2013 sales from purchases that players make within its free games such …

The high rate of paying is surprising, but China is becoming more affluent. … Lots of people I met had two smartphones, and they kept chatting on the WeChat mobile-messaging service or talking on the phone — right through a couple of dinners I attended.

Instead of barbed wire and sentries, residents will be greeted by a 24/7 doorman and concierge service – and perhaps eventually, a growing, city-wide pushback against gentrification. That same history has led to a less-than-linear growth path for …

But the decrepit hotels — with cramped and dirty rooms, faulty plumbing and poor room service — would be the cause of the greatest shame. National media had a field day reporting … Historian Theodore H. White described Atlantic City as “one of …

The social media tsars of the Australian Public Service have seemingly failed to limit employee interaction on Twitter, with a study by the Queensland University of Technology finding the ACT has the largest per-capita concentration of users in …

'Somewhat Affluent'. The former public servant's stake in Tigo is valued at about $1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, based on the average enterprise value-to-Ebitda and price-to-book value multiples of three publicly traded …

Service chiefs expect new risks to emerge in more affluent areas, where historically residents have been well educated and able to protect themselves from the risk of fire. A massive reduction in numbers of fires over the last few years has meant fire …

The United States has the second-highest child poverty rate among the world's richest 35 nations, and the cost in economic and educational outcomes is half a trillion dollars a year, according to a new report by the Educational Testing Service. The …