While posing for photographs before her high school prom, Becca Brown's high heels sank into the grass. She found herself stumbling around at a time when she most wanted to appear mature and sophisticated.

Over the past decade, the music industry was roundly criticized for how it responded to the proliferation of digital content -- launching hundreds of lawsuits against otherwise law-abiding consumers who downloaded music.

Growing up in Ghana, Ashifi Gogo was amazed that he could surf the Internet on his mobile phone from anywhere, but couldn't always get clean tap water to drink. "The only state-of-the-art infrastructure we have is our cellphone network,

Lara Lewis used to be a stressed-out single mother whose teaching job left her little time for her young daughter, but now she works from home, selling an estimated $60,000 a year worth of jewelry online.

JimmyJane, a startup that makes vibrating sex toys, raised $2 million from investors, according to a recent regulatory filing.

Growing up in Ghana, Ashifi Gogo was amazed that he could surf the Internet on his mobile phone from anywhere, but couldn't always get clean tap water to drink.

Ten years ago, it was not fashionable for social enterprises to take loans. Even if they wanted to, nobody would lend them money.

"Businesses cannot simply operate in societies that are plagued with extreme poverty and where the environment is severely degraded. It is important for businesses to build in solutions to these challenges in their business strategies for t...

It was the early 1990s, the Internet was blooming, and Christopher Klaus had an idea for a video game: stop hackers from breaking into a computer network.

Optimism among the country's small businesses slipped in February as entrepreneurs worried about repeatedly weak sales, the National Federation of Independent Business said in a survey released on Tuesday.