The Foundation for the Study of Applied Economics (FEDEA) presented a study this week that analyzes women in the job market. The report verifies that gender inequality exists in the workplace. Even though women are more educated, they have greater difficulty getting jobs, the jobs they get are not as good, they earn an average of 20 % less and they are underrepresented in management positions.

According to UBS’ latest study, the percentage of financial services users who utilize mobile banking in Mexico has jumped to 61 %, surpassing the percentage of users who use traditional services only.

According to the Visa Digital Payments 2016 study, 54% of European consumers make mobile payments. This represents a significant increase from the 18% who did so in 2015.

In Spain, August ended with a total of 51.2 million cell phone lines, according to the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC). The Commission notes that mobile lines including both voice and data currently represent 76.46 % of all mobile lines in Spain (51.2 million) after adding 316,753 new lines in August. Of this amount, 225,226 were postpaid and 91,527 were prepaid.

Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer around the world and is the most frequent type of cancer for women. It is estimated that breast cancer represents 25% of all cancer cases internationally. However, survival rates for this form of cancer have increased 20 percentage points since the 1980s.

It is undeniable that the arrival of Uber to the transportation sector has threatened the traditional taxi industry across the world. Even New York’s world famous taxis have been impacted by the competition from new companies, and not only in the number of customers. When Uber started in New York in 2011, taxi licenses cost approximately $700,000. In 2016, they were down to $475,000.