This article was originally published bySarah WrayonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. New research from Ramboll finds that personal safety concerns about walking, cycling and using public transport have a big influence on how women move around cities. TheGender and (Smart) Mobilityreportcalls on cities and transport planners to adopt a safety by design approach and apply a gender lens to all projects without casting women as victims....

Oh,Skype, how we love you here atThe Next Web, as our offices in Amsterdam are quite the commute for our U.S. and U.K. based editors. You host our water cooler conversations and allow me the pleasure of listening toBrad McCarty’s stunning radio voiceeven though I am in New York City and he is somewhere near Nashville, Tennessee. Skype, we love you because AT&T’s service is bollocks and we often use you for conference calls with CEOs of multi-million dollar companies cause we know you won’t drop us....

TLDR:The QuickBooks Pro Desktop Certification Bonus Bundle can help anyone get a handle on business accounting with eight courses filled with almost 110 hours of material. There may be no element of starting and running a business that is more crucial, yet less inherently sexy than accurate bookkeeping. Since most entrepreneurs didn’t launch their new business to tally balance sheets and process invoices, this critical task may turn into that leader’s third or fourth full-time job....

You likely remember that Google was in some prettyheavy talksto acquire daily deals siteGroupononly a few weeks ago. While talks fell apart and Groupon gained itself nearly a billion dollars in backing, Google has reportedly been hard at work creating Google Offers. According toMashable, which states that it has documented proof (embedded below) of the plans in the form of a facts sheet, Google Offers appears to be working exactly as Groupon does — a daily email for a local deal....

My Fiveis a small web app byKyle Bragger, the man behind popular design social sharing siteForrst, that gets you to make up a list of just five people you would follow on Twitter if you were restricted to that number. One of the greatest things about My Five is the number of tears it has the potential to produce, in the vein of our ownQwitter. If you don’t want to offend anyone, use overly flippant comments that ensure anyone who missed the list is relieved they weren’t included, like so:...