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Hanover – – November 02, 2026 -- Adults in Germany cover about 190 million kilometers per day by bicycle and e-bike, according to a longitudinal mobility study from bicycle insurer and leasing provider Linexo. The total splits into roughly 130 million km by conventional bike and 60 million km by e-bike, about 4,750 times the circumference of the Earth.

Two-wheelers take 27% of daily mobility time, ahead of public transport

Bikes and e-bikes account for more than 15 minutes, or 27%, of daily mobility time. That is second only to cars and carsharing at 55% and ahead of public transport at 19%.

Distance tells a different story. Of 38 kilometers traveled in total, 73% are covered on four wheels and 9% on two. Linexo's Sören Hirsch said the gap shows how much potential remains for further trips by bike and e-bike.

NEW YORK – October 29, 2026 -- Talos, the institutional technology and data provider for digital asset trading and portfolio management, has hired Kelly Ye as Head of Research, putting a dedicated leader over a research program that follows liquidity, market structure and onchain finance.

Ye brings nearly two decades of finance experience, including 14 years in traditional markets

Ye will be based in New York. She held investment leadership roles in digital assets at Avenir Group and Decentral Park Capital. She also held research and product leadership roles at Fidelity Digital Asset Management and CoinDesk Indices. Most recently, she was building Coinbridge, a company focused on bridging the capital gap for tokenized real-world assets.

Ye holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Peking University and a master's degree in Operations Research from MIT. She is a CFA charterholder.

San Antonio – October 01, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has launched a Top Performers program to independently evaluate and spotlight high-performing college programs at U.S. institutions that often lack regional visibility beyond a 10-mile radius of campus.

Program targets program-level ROI rather than institutional rankings

The research analyzes academic programs based on graduate earnings, licensure outcomes, peer context, and career market indicators rather than evaluating entire institutions. Frost & Sullivan says most students attend college within 50 miles of home and compare a small number of nearby options primarily based on economic outcomes, a decision factor the company argues national rankings fail to address.

Vancouver, BC – September 14, 2026 -- Time Out and Rival Technologies have won a 2026 Esomar Award for Excellence in Global Research, announced at the Esomar Congress in Valencia, Spain.

Global City Survey engaged 18,500 people across nearly 60 countries

The award-winning project surveyed participants in 45 languages, generating approximately 1.6 million data points and an 86% completion rate. The research underpins Time Out's Best Cities ranking, a decade-long global editorial initiative built on resident feedback and Time Out's journalism.

Rival's conversational platform replaced traditional survey formats

Time Out partnered with Rival Technologies to shift the Global City Survey from a standard survey format to a mobile-first, chat-like research experience while preserving the scale needed for a global program spanning dozens of markets.

Frankfurt am Main – September 13, 2026 -- The F.A.Z. Institute and QuantiQuest Research & Consulting GmbH will publish the second edition of their "TOP Anwalt" study, awarding Germany's leading lawyers in two special editions of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Rankings split across private and business law segments in September 2026

Results covering private-client lawyers will run on September 13, 2026, followed by the business-law ranking on September 13, 2026. Both will appear in the F.A.Z. print edition and online at topanwalt.faz.net.

Methodology combines peer input, client feedback and self-disclosure

QuantiQuest conducted the underlying analysis, which factors in peer recommendations, client assessments and lawyer self-reporting to produce rankings across selected legal practice areas. The F.A.Z. Institute then awards the "TOP Anwalt 2027" seal to qualifying attorneys based on those findings.