Herb Peterson changed breakfast forever and revolutionized the quick-service industry in America with the invention of the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin breakfast sandwich. His son,→

Throw two former preschool teachers, a rock band keyboardist and a singer together and you get the world’s most famous pop band for the→

Daily Dispatch Online: Momtrepreneurs are a new breed of stay-at-home moms who bring income into the household coffers while still having the time to→

CNNMoney.com: Entrepreneurial spirit and parental advice don’t always jibe, but sometimes mother does know best. It was Heather Key Tiller’s mom, Susan Foxworth, who→

Misty Calhoun stumbled across the Belly Bling Web site two years ago while searching the Internet for navel ring vendors. She ordered a titanium→

Pez was invented in 1927 by Eduard Haas III, a Viennese food-products mogul. Small, rectangular and mint-flavored (the name is a contraction of pfefferminz,→

Inventor David Allen of Genoa Township said his recently launched business — Wow Products USA — is rightfully named, reports The Livingston Daily. When→

Tavi Gevinson sat in a west suburban cafe consuming cheese pizza, hot chocolate and a fruit roll-up — the type of meal you’d expect→

ContraCostaTimes.com: Her first business venture in the United States ended badly with a surprise visit from the health department. Maricela Gutierrez was selling raspados→

Ben Varadi is a master of child’s play. The 39-year-old spends most of his days testing, promoting and gabbing about toys, reports the World-Herald→

Fede Alvarez’s short film “Ataque de Panico!” (Panic Attack!) features giant robots invading and destroying Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay, reports the BBC. It→

It’s well-known that women rule their family’s pocketbook and make many of the major purchasing decisions in their households, and now there’s proof that→

This year has been the biggest yet for online video, and for the first time The YouTube Blog is sharing our official Most Watched→

The afternoon sun beats down on the rocky hills and quicksand pits that surround the still, gray-blue body of water, which is flanked by→

Darryl Holland moves with purpose as he surveys the calm before the storm. It’s about 9:30 a.m. in early December, which means his company,→

The ukulele, that four-stringed instrument that brings to mind kitschy Hawaiian grass-skirt performances and Tiny Tim, is suddenly hip, according to The NY Daily→

Surrounded by shelves stocked with 180 different wooden train cars, Sandy Oliver boxes orders at Whittle Shortline Railroad in New London, Mo. (pop. 1,001).→

The Orangeville Banner: If you want to find Chris Llewellyn, your best bet — most days — is to knock on her garage door.→

North County Times: Like countless new mothers, Robyn Collar found two hands weren’t enough. With an infant girl, Kayli, and a newborn son, Talen,→

Jeremiah Turner at Foster’s Daily Democrat has an interesting look at a little ‘green’ startup. I recently visited a nondescript storefront at an address→